Keeping ScoreBasketball
For a while there, we thought we wouldn’t be saying this, but: the 2011-2012 NBA season is ready to tip off. The 149-day lockout is all but forgotten, and the NBA returns with a five-game Christmas feast, starting with the New …
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This week, the NFL announced a new policy that puts an independent trainer in the press box, charged with spotting injured players. Good move. But why not gives these trainers as much power as a referee?
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We all knew it, but academics have now proved it: college kids would rather watch sports than study.
A study conducted by three University of Oregon economists, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research this week, …
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The NCAA forced the University of North Dakota to change its Native American nickname, even though a local tribe gave the school its blessing to use it, and a name change will cost the public school significant money
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Tebow wasn’t terrible against New England, but his “left-to-right deficiency” has been noted.
Keeping ScoreBaseball
If you wanted to see Barry Bonds do hard time for breaking Hank Aaron’s home run record in a seemingly fraudulent fashion, today’s not your day.
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After a blocked trade, lawsuit threat, and outcry among NBA players, executives, and fans, Chris Paul is headed for Los Angeles.
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We tried to ignore Tim Tebow in this space. But how is that humanly possible?
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Is the National League Most Valuable Player also baseball’s biggest dunce? Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun, who hit .332 last season with 33 home runs and 111 RBI, has tested positive for a banned substance, and is facing …
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As the season begins, Chris Paul is not a Los Angeles Laker, and David Stern is the most-hated man in basketball.
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If fighting were phased out of the NHL, could a similar future tragedy be avoided?
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In the Dec. 19 issue of TIME, Tim Tebow speaks out about the vitriol over his public Christianity. “Thank goodness I don’t have to live the roller coaster that everyone else lives about my life,” he says
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The new 10-year, $250 million–$260 million contract that Albert Pujols will reportedly sign with the Los Angeles Angels settles something, once and for all. In St. Louis, Stan will always be the Man.
Pujols should have …
