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January 01, 1990 - January 18, 2013 + The Score
A Gambler's Empathy 
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Incorrect officials' calls have been a big back story in this year's NFL season. Come Mondays, newspaper headlines in various NFL cities have blared outrage...
NASCAR Nation Fades
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The NASCAR season ends this weekend with the final chase for the Spring Cup race in Homestead-Miami. The stands aren't nearly as crowded and rowdy
as...
Obama's Moment
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Naïve of me, leading up to Tuesday, not to have foreseen the emotional
moment that would come with a black man winning the presidential
election. With millions...
New York City Marathon
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The New York City Marathon runs this Sunday and it's an odd thing. It's odd that, while the event
has grown hugely in participant numbers (some...
Jack Kelly a Diamond
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his past weekend marked the annual Head of the Charles Regatta.
When I saw some photos of the 8,000 rowers in various boats, gliding
down the Charles...
A League of Their Own
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A League of Their Own was the popular 1992 Penny Marshall movie, basically a comedy, based on the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. While...
Clutch
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It's one of the magical monikers of sports. "Mr. October." It came about thirty-one years ago, during the sixth game of the World
Series between the...
FedExCup Faulty
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Since the Yankees aren't playing post season this year, I'm not avidly rooting for any one team but I must say that it would be...
ARod in Stripes
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Let's start with the all-Sunday-long farewell to Yankee Stadium. From Paul Simon to Henry Kissinger to Babe Ruth's 92-year old daughter, fans and players of...
Phelps Post-Games
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Let's check in with Michael Phelps, shall we? How's his life going nearly a month after winning his historic eight gold medals at the Beijing...
US Open Finale
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. Now that the U.S. Open has ended, so should the professional tennis season. The last Grand...
Beijing Summed Up
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Murmurs had been growing louder over the past decade or so that the
mystique of the Olympic Games had lost its luster. Widespread drug
busts of such...
Olympic Pride
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Those who have been privy to the dress rehearsals for the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games, to get under way for real tomorrow,...
Too Young for Games
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Swimming and Track & Field are the marquee sports of every summer
Olympic Games but gymnastics is known as the jewel of the whole
spectacle--notably women's gymnastics....
A Drug-Free Beijing?
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I've often wondered how former Olympic athletes feel right about this
time, on the eve of yet another Olympic Games. Do they wallow in
nostalgia, national anthems...
