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July 2006 |
| "Thirty years ago, 100 vignettes of elite female athletes in 100 different sports would have been hard to come by. Today . . . Well, see for yourself." |
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January 2011 |
| Steven Holcomb's bobsled career and childhood dream of winning an Olympic gold medal were dashed forever--or so it seemed. |
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January 2017 |
| "The American College of Sports Medicine estimates that, each year, roughly 300,000 high school and college athletes are diagnosed with sports-related head injuries--but that number may be several times higher due to undiagnosed cases." |
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March 2002 |
| "A veteran generation of snowboarders is introducing its kids to the sport, and the typical slacker stereotype is way past its prime." |
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November 2014 |
| The stereotype is an average fantasy football player is an overweight male who sits in front of his computer and never has set foot on a football field. |
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May 2002 |
| "If the goal of sports is competition and winning, advanced materials will continue to improve the equipment so that less efficiency, fitness, and skill are necessary to play." |
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January 2017 |
| "The U.S. Olympic Committee awarded more than $2,000,000 to Olympic and Paralympic medalists last year: $25,000 for Gold, $15,000 for Silver, and $10,000 for Bronze." |
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September 2002 |
| ". . . There's no rush of adventure, like when I used to spend hours pickout out just the right doubleheader, or thrill like that first night game." |
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September 2009 |
| "New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon [has built a baseball stadium] with more blind spots and obstructed views than the liberal media assessing the Obama presidency." |
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September 2011 |
| "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson wanted to know if announcer Bob Uecker ever had been asked to endorse a product. Uecker answered that he "had a unique and lucrative contract with a sporting goods company, Rawlings, not to use any of their products." |
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July 2010 |
| The Library of Congress is the keeper of American memory, as the collective fragments of our national pastime are carefully catalogued and painstakingly preserved. |
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July 2018 |
| "The founding documents of baseball that would shape the modern game as our national pastime were ironed out in January and February 1857 at a convention called by the Knickerbockers Base Ball Club in New York." |
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July 2005 |
| For managers, coaches, players, and parents alike, nothing quite can compare to a season on the youth circuit. |
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July 2019 |
| "Expect to see the first of these new services and applications rolled out in conjunction with the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and soccer tournaments in Europe, among other big events on the sports calendar." |
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May 2021 |
| ". . . Billionaire sports barons have seen their wealth rise as their fans lose their lives, livelihoods, health, and wealth. . . . We should be investigating pandemic profiteering and taxing windfall gains during these extraordinary times." |
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January 2019 |
| "Keep in mind that your child is not a mini-me. Just because you were a successful athlete and a fierce competitor does not mean that your son or daughter will follow suit." |
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September 2005 |
| Although his lifetime average of .367 and 12 batting titles have never even been approached, his pervasive image is that of a brutal, bigoted, friendless, haunted creature, a freeswinging, bourbon guzzling ogre who presumably tortured small animals . . . |
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September 2016 |
| "As [strength and conditioning] coaches, we perform all types of testing and training with our athletes, but the most important test often missed is: 'Can the athlete play?' " |
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May 2001 |
| ". . . The apparent legitimacy given to sports gambling by Nevada's casinos has confused the public. Many, if not most, Americans do not understand that it is illegal everywhere else." |
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May 2010 |
| "I cannot tell you how many times I was told I was foolish for putting the skates back on at my age and that I was wasting my time and money thinking I could make a film that anyone but my mother would want to watch." |
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September 2003 |
| Like so many of America's sports-hungry cities, Houston, Tex., saw its longtime National Football League team move to another region of the country, only to have it replaced by another franchise. |
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January 2014 |
| "[Sports, especially football] not only make us distinctively American, they make us better Americans." |
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September 2019 |
| "The iconic bathtub-shaped stadium served as home to the New York Giants baseball team (1891-1957), New York Yankees (1913-22), New York Giants football team (1922-55), and New York Mets (1962-63), as well as stints by several other professional teams…" |
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May 2016 |
| "One way to look at…analytics is as a series of battles over the right way to understand sports. You might call these games within games…" |
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January 2002 |
| "Losing tends to exacerbate conflicts that may be simmering, but remain dormant while a team is enjoying success." |
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November 2005 |
| "Rather than imposing an external drug-testing program on sports organizations, the Federal gov't should focus on preventing access to performance-enhancing drugs that pose health risks and prosecuting persons who distribute these substances illegally." |
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March 2011 |
| The mayhem of March Madness figures to be a bit more intense this year with the reformatting of the NCAA Tournament to include even more teams. |
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March 2005 |
| Like many cities that have waited so long for a team, Washington, D.C., is ready to lavish its new residents with a state-of-the-art ballpark that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. However, who should foot the bill? |
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July 2011 |
| Baseball careers are not compressed versions of normal careers--rather they are skewed substantially toward early exit. |
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November 2021 |
| As baseball Hall-of-Famer Yogi Berra once said: "[Sports] is 90% mental; the other half is physical. . . ." |
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March 2006 |
| The forgotten manuscript of a big league legend who preceded Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth as the National Pastime's first 20th-century superstar gives a fascinating glimpse of what life was like around the grand old game during its early years. |
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July 2012 |
| At recess, the nuns would ask, "He has no feet; so how can he run so fast?" So fast, in fact, that Tony Volpentest has been nominated for induction in the Olympic Hall of Fame. |
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November 2016 |
| "Anywhere you go in Cuba there are pickup games being played in alleys and streets, in deserted lots, in fallowed fields, even inside the clover leaf of an on-ramp to a highway." |
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March 2020 |
| The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again--but baseball has marked this time. The game is a part of our past and reminds us of all that once was, and that could be again. |
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May 2003 |
| ". . . The sporting goods industry, insurance companies, and government agencies have been lax in informing the public about the critical need for injury prevention in sports. . . ." |
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July 2008 |
| Boston is the latest venue for a traveling Hall of Fame exhibition that brings the game's past to life while celebrating the accomplishments of today's teams and stars. |
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July 2008 |
| "Understanding the magnitude of [Roberto] Clemente requires an appreciation of the gestalt of his presence, which was greater than the sum of his statistics. . . ." |
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September 2011 |
| A true and pure fight for the flag has not taken place in more than 40 years--that is, since the advent of baseball divisions and a mult-team playoff format. Still, come September, the pennant push is on. |
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July 2001 |
| Protective equipment, standards, and common sense are keys to preventing serious injury. |
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November 2019 |
| Everybody involved in football wants a more reliable way of identifying when injuries happen. The culture of the game is such that the players often are reluctant to volunteer that they're hurt. The symptoms of a concussion can be subtle and hard to spot. |
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May 2006 |
| "Dramatic upsets such as the U.S. triumph over England in 1950, North Korea's defeat of Italy in 1966, and Cameroon's shocker against Argentina in 1990 surely serve to remind seasoned fans that the unthinkable can and does happen at the World Cup." |
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March 2007 |
| "Artists . . . often get caught up in the spirit of the . . . Season, their creative juices producing an interesting array of works, each with its own unique perspective of that particular athletic arena." |
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July 2009 |
| Can the National League's mid-summer night's dream team finally prevail in the All-Star Game? |
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November 2015 |
| Why is it so difficult for Major League Baseball to implement an equitable playoff system? |
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March 2001 |
| "The tools are available to conduct more-extensive screening as part of a preparticipatory physical examination, aimed at detecting those at risk for sudden death on the playing field, at a cost comparable to a pair of tickets to the game itself." |
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September 2011 |
| "The . . . Training [for a triathalon] is a full mind, body, spirit connection. It teaches you to break down self-limitation. It carries over into other aspects of life." |
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March 2022 |
| "'Are you rating the players? They told me it's what you do.' A huge hand reached out with index finger pointing at a row of Philadelphia Warriors statistics on the page in front of me. 'What's my rating?'" |
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January 2014 |
| "Wireless helmet sensors, handheld alert monitoring of players at all levels, and biomarker testing are innovations that have moved the game of football forward. . . . We all need to stay committed to making smarter football part of that evolution." |
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March 2017 |
| The exhibition "Baseball's Greatest Hits: The Music of Our National Game" serves as a perfect companion to the start of spring training. |
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July 2016 |
| "Every day that the [Chicago] Cubs had a home game, I would head down to Wrigleyville and do a little pregame elbow-bending with some of the Windy City's most faithful fans…" |
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March 2004 |
| Hope--and baseball--springs eternal in "Game Faces," which brings to life the National Pastime's men in uniform. |
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September 2011 |
| "The fifth set went along like a six-day bike race with hardly more than a point separating us at any time. Finally (like people who are seasick and no longer care if they do so long as it is soon) we no longer cared who won. . . ." |
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January 2016 |
| "For those considering getting involved with daily fantasy sports, keep this in mind: playing undoubtedly will be just as exciting and easy as its backers advertise but, just as with other forms of gambling, stopping can be difficult." |
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July 2005 |
| "It no longer is Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Now it is Garciaparra-to-Grudzielanek-to-Choi. . . . Poetry on the diamond and music to the ears." |
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May 2012 |
| Today, too many people play the race card so casually and with so little thought; they would do well to remember the determination and humility displayed by those who really did have something to complain about. |
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September 2017 |
| Univ of Alabama's Integrative Center for Athletic Sport Technology draws on expertise from the fields of engineering, exercise science, health science, athletic training, nutrition, & kinesiology, giving researchers access to top-notch athletes. |
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January 2001 |
| Colleges & universities are making efforts to diversify their student bodies, faculties, & administrations by race, ethnicity & sex. This laudable goal is clearly at odds with the existence of racist & sexist names & practices of athletic teams. |
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July 2006 |
| Determined to "hurl red hell on his way to a score," Ty Cobb increasingly became more aggressive and imaginative during his first few seasons with the Detroit Tigers, exhibiting a lethal combination of speed, size, muscle, and guile. |
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March 2005 |
| Boston and St. Louis took center stage for Major League Baseball Production, with the Red Sox, previous two-time Fall Classic vicitms to the Cardinals, finally reversing the curse and winning their first title since 1918. |
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July 2013 |
| A war was raging in the sports pages about whether MLB should be integrated. Meanwhile, from Jackie Robinson, in the borough of Brooklyn, New York, an idea was brewing that would catapult him into the national consciousness. |
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July 2003 |
| The purpose of Title IX is to make discrimination based on gender in education and athletics unlawful. It does not prevent schools from abandoning the mission of athletics, and it can't stop schools from dropping a men's team or its entire athletic dept. |
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September 2015 |
| "…With barely a minute left, Coach suddenly was ready to play me--on defense? Spitting and spewing, he yelled for me to line up deep middle and 'Don't let anyone get past you!' " |
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July 2019 |
| "Appearing on 'Late Night with David Letterman,' [Yankee Hall-of-Famer Mickey Mantle] saw this comedy coming along more tragic lines, since there were so many deserving Crash Davises who never did make the majors--not even for a cup of coffee." |
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May 2017 |
| "The whistle blows and the players are off and running. Your kid is actually one of the starters for a change, and your jaw drops to the ground--you have never seen such amazing skill from a seven-year-old…" |
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November 2006 |
| Anson Dorrance is the improbable architect of the greatest college sports dynasty ever. |
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November 2018 |
| ". . . If your chiildren are just starting out in sports, you, as a parent, have a lot of responsibility as to how they behave. Make sure you model and demand good sportsmanship and teamwork, and also teach your kids humility and a great work ethic." |
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January 2014 |
| "Maybe a new name would make the team even more popular and lucrative--and less offensive." |
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November 2021 |
| "The Olympic goal is to channel nationalism in ways that inspire peace and good sportsmanship, not serve as a forum to stoke the flames of social and political discord." |
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November 2020 |
| ". . . Any policy that did not exclude infectious disease before surely will adress it moving forward." |
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March 2016 |
| The author coordinated the Arizona State University men;s basketball point-shaving scandal, and later was sent to Federal Prison. Now labaled a two-time felon, he is telling his story…" |
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