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Olympic Distance Running — Dominated Strategies?

In Thursday’s 800m final, David Rudisha set the track on fire with a new world record — the first ever

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Too Many Chiefs

The English National Team bears out a longstanding maxim –team production does not equate to the sum of individual production.

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Olympic Athletes — Real Life Avengers

The Olympics hooked me from my earliest memories of Bill Toomey, Lee Evans, and Jim Hines in Mexico City in

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Tail Wags Dog — In Some Leagues

Skip’s post on Tuesday along with the NBA ref scandal brings to the front differences in league management of their

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"The Truth" on Bonds

This week’s Sports Illustrated cover story excerpts parts of the new book, Game of Shadows, detailing the evidence about Barry

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Soccer in Seattle

A bit behind on this, but the new MLS team in Seattle (The Sounders) have sold more season tickets (per

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Bergkamp, Zidane, and Fame

Watching Dennis Bergkamp’s vision, touch, and pace in the 1994 World Cup converted me from an occasional soccer watcher into

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Singletary v. Madden on Management

The San Francisco 49ers won their first game yesterday, beating their even more hapless cross-Bay rivals, the Oakland Raiders.   The

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College Football

Texas A&M Stays in “Varsity’s” Shadow

“The eyes of Texas are upon you”, that’s the song they sing so well Sounds like hell, so good bye

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The Media and Sports Royalty

The web buzzed this morning over John Calipari’s remarks concerning Duke’s flopping, USA Today, Huffington, … Coach K’s responded, but

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Aggressive & Passive Responses to Doping

A Yahoo! Sports headline and associated summary regarding the Tour on Monday headline reads, Sastre Wins Doping-Scarred Tour de France.

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Plays or Players?

During his trip to the Jacksonsville Jags’ camp, SI.com’s Don Banks elicited a couple of interesting quotes: From [QB Byron]Leftwich:

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