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Untouchable: Oklahoma's Keilani Ricketts emerges as the face of her sport
Keilani Ricketts is on the hill - no, not a hill. In a circle. She doesn't have the benefit of looking down on her adversaries from high ground or the advantage of gravity to help propel her pitches....
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Mahopac Summer: How one player can change a small town
“As to Mahopac’s scenic beauty: It lies around the lake on every side in such great wealth that one can truly sing when under its charm, ‘I care not for riches, neither silver nor gold.’” — U.G....
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The most exquisite game: An interview with former MLB commissioner Fay...
Commmissioners of professional sports leagues clearly work for the owners of the teams in the leagues. That’s their job — the owners sign their checks. But not too long ago, there was a Commissioner...
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The High One: It's been 100 years since man first stepped foot on North...
Walter Harper was the first man to reach the summit. Harry Karstens and Robert Tatum scrambled up just behind him, and then all three turned to haul their leader, Hudson Stuck, up the last few feet. He...
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The Prospect: Montaous Walton just wanted to play ball, so he made up a fake...
Little Montaous Walton,come blow your horn. Another reporter is on the phone,Offering you escape from the scorn. Who is this boywho plays till he weeps? Living his dream,but still fast asleep. Will you...
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Lessons from the linescore: Learning from the plodding pitchers, who succeed...
I had the stuff. I just didn't have the heart. Or, more precisely, I always had the stuff, which was why I never had the heart. I didn't need it. Then, in the arrogance of youth, with those early years...
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Baby on board: How NASCAR saved my daughter
The greatest quote I have ever gotten and ever will get happened not in a locker room, but in the lobby of a hospital. It came from my very much in-labor wife. “Something is out,” she said. Like any...
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Robot Wars: An oral history of the birth and death of BattleBots
I. EurekaMarin County, Calif., 1992. The Internet has yet to take hold, Jay Leno is the fresh new face of "The Tonight Show," Bill Clinton has just shown off his saxophone bona fides on "Arsenio Hall,"...
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'Christmas in June': A small island finally gets its big moment on the world...
Located just a few miles uphill from the seaside capital Papeete lies the country's national soccer team’s training ground. Nestled under the misty mountain Orohena are the Tahitians sparse facilities,...
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'She is gone!': The search for the Gibson home run ball and for the answers...
Kirk Gibson is sitting in the visitors' dugout two hours before game time. The Arizona Diamondbacks manager is watching his players stretch and take batting practice before they meet the Dodgers in an...
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Chasing Cave Dog: The agony and ecstasy of attempting to climb 55 of...
My 14er record attemptby John Prater | 22 Aug 2012, 09:31Really not sure how this will shake out, but I get going tomorrow morning around 5:15 a.m.Day One and Two: First StepsThe unspoken message was...
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Who was Stella Walsh?: The story of the intersex Olympian
PART ONEStella Walsh walked out of Uncle Bill’s Discount Department Store with a bag full of ribbons. It was the evening of Dec. 4, 1980. The sun was long gone and a chill was filling the air. Two...
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NBA Draft 2013 grades and results: Your complete NBA Draft guide
Get caught up on everything that happened in the first round of the 2013 NBA Draft with SB Nation's NBA Draft guide, presented by State Farm.NBA Draft 2013 grades and resultsYour complete NBA Draft...
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The Ringers: One night at a beer pong "Brodeo," where 20-somethings navigate...
During the day, Braza Dancante Brazilian Steakhouse is a pleasant enough place. It's in the middle of a massive outdoor shopping center right off the highway in Allen, Texas, one of the sprawling...
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Brooklyn's field of broken dreams: Former professional ballplayers find...
From the first time you ever take the field, even as ground balls bounce off your chest and you swing and miss at pitch after pitch, the coaches always tell you that baseball is a game of failure. Even...
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The only one: After being drafted No. 4 overall, Nashville defenseman Seth...
The media horde gained in strength and size by the minute, a collection of anxious reporters armed with iPhones, notebooks, cameras and microphones, all eager to get something, anything, out of an...
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The ultimate Frisbee wars: As the sport continues to grow rapidly and gain...
The good news is there’s not a Birkenstock in sight. No nose rings, dreadlocks, patchouli, or hacky sacks, either. And definitely no bandanna-wearing dogs.Nothing the common person associates with...
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Enfield adventures: A taste of the Tottenham Hotspur academy
"We'll start with the beep test, and then there'll be a two-mile run."It took me less than 30 seconds of taking to the pitch at Enfield to realise that I had absolutely no business being there. Not...
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Saving grace: After a gruesome murder, a man turns to his friends in the...
It was early morning in Drake Bay, a coastal, tourist town in the wildest jungle of Costa Rica, and a crescent moon still hung in the sky. In the trees, millions of cicadas rattled, and fringe-lipped...
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Robert Griffin III gets up
After an alternately queasy and actively depressing NFL offseason, the imminent return of RGIII is a rare and welcome bit of good news -- not just for Washington fans, but everyone who cares about...
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