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The Bill Belichick Offseason Simulator
This must be emphasized from the outset: The Bill Belichick Offseason Simulator is a tool, and not a toy. It does not exist to amuse you. It is meant to train prospective football coaches in the art...
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A Body's Worth: Boxer Andrae Carthron takes his last punch
The short boxer stalked forward with the slow reflexes of a drunk, wobbling in half steps with his hands too low. Each time he ducked punches he sacrificed balance, spreading his feet too wide, then...
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SB Nation Reviews: Barry Bonds
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Sunday Shootaround: The NBA's Eastern playoff race is a compelling trainwreck
☰The ListICYMISay WhatVine Of The WeekgoogleplusfacebooktwitterupThe East's compelling trainwreckPaul FlanneryBOSTON -- The strangest of playoff chases pulled out all the stops last week with five...
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11 outrageous ballpark foods that might kill you this season
At least you'll die happy Twitter Fan v. Food BurgerTampa Bay RaysA four pound burger with two eight 8-ounce patties and eight slices of cheese. Oh, and 32 slices of bacon. It's called Fan vs. Food as...
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When in Roma …
Roma, March 26, 2014 — The room is in Rome’s city hall, located in a Renaissance palace that sits on ancient ruins and overlooks Michelangelo’s Piazza del Campidoglio. Statuary lines the walls. The...
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Sunday Shootaround: In the NBA, the stars make the system
☰The ListICYMISay WhatVine Of The WeekgoogleplusfacebooktwitterupThe Star SystemPaul FlanneryThe most important moment of the NBA season occurred last July when LeBron James announced that he was...
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The Ghosts I Run With: Surviving childhood cancer is a race that never ends
“Creech.”The name escaped my lips somewhere in the third mile of a five-mile run. It was a name I had been trying to think of, off-and-on, for the better part of a decade, the last name of my nurse...
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The Remaking of Coss Marte: A drug kingpin turned fitness guru becomes human
Late February 2015Coss Marte, 29, is going to get his hair cut by the man who helped him run a drug empire. He’s walking south on Forsyth Street, on the edge of New York’s Lower East Side, on the...
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The rise of Mookie Betts: How one of baseball's biggest surprises is no...
Right behind the entrance door to the Red Sox clubhouse, Mookie Betts sat slumped in his chair last August during his second stint in the major leagues. Betts’ locker fell in the middle of a row...
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NBA Y2K: Ten Years to Midnight
Ten Years to MidnightAside from user-created draft classes, everything that follows documents a completely-untouched NBA 2K15 simulation. All draft selections, roster decisions, and transactions of any...
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Mayweather vs. Pacquiao: The complete timeline for the fight of the century
For over five years now, the world has waited. On May 2, the wait finally ends. Floyd Mayweather will face Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, and when all is said and done, only...
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NFL daft: A partial history of draft day's terrible decisions and total failures
Poor NFL. (This is the first time in history that those two words have sat next to one another.)In the NFL Draft, the NFL can't really win. If it picks a great player early on, it's an obvious move...
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Not just throwing darts: A behind-the-scenes look at the NFL scouting...
Risers, fallers, winners, losers, sleepers, reaches and busts. The feats and fiascos by front offices during the three-day spectacle that is the modern NFL Draft has become the stuff of legend and...
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Dreams have no borders: Sydney Leroux's Journey from Canada to the American...
JULY 10, 1999A skinny 9-year-old girl with dark, wavy hair bounces around her living room, a soccer ball at her feet. She kicks it against the cream and green tweed couch. Her eyes stare into the...
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Down & Away
Leo Mazzone might be the best pitching coach in major league history. And no one will hire him.It’s the top of the first inning, and Leo Mazzone is already rocking.Each croak of the springs in...
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The young Randy Velarde, and 289 other sports references by Action Bronson
The randomness and precision of rapper Action Bronson’s sports shoutouts are unrivaled. He won’t just seamlessly drop a reference to Arvydas Sabonis in the middle of a bar — he’ll do so while...
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Unclimbable
A few days before our trip into the Cirque of the Unclimbables was scheduled to begin, I saw a physiotherapist for the first time in my life. I’d been on standby for a week, hoping that someone would...
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Roland Garros at War: The Oldest Living French Tennis Champion Tells All
It’s not often you get to meet royalty in this day and age. Certainly, it doesn’t usually happen in Jacksonville, Fla.Despite her age (97), and her walker (thanks to a recently broken hip), the word...
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Two Lanes to Accokeek
Two young men, 20 and 18, facing north. Two straight lanes, clear and flat, inviting them into a very dark place.They arrive at the stoplight at the Burger King just before 3 a.m. on Feb. 16, 2008, a...
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