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Transition game: After decades of hiding painful childhood memories, former...
To watch Kenny Anderson play, when it was among the most important things in my life, meant parking at Giants Stadium, climbing a long flight of stairs along with a few thousand other fans -- many of...
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Elegy of a race car driver: The good times, hard life, and shocking death of...
Sometime after 10:30 on a Thursday morning in May, after he'd had his cup of coffee, Dick Trickle snuck out of the house. His wife didn't see him go. He eased his 20-year-old Ford pickup out on the...
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Alex Rodriguez, performance artist
It's not Alex Rodriguez's job to seem or be human, which is a good thing for him, because he would not be very good at his job if it were. It has in most respects been Rodriguez's job to be as...
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Camp Never Land: A week at action sports finishing school, where big dreams...
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”—J.M. Barrie, author of Peter PanIt is Sunday evening just past suppertime, and Clay Kreiner, a 16-year-old skateboarder who will spend the duration of...
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Clint Dempsey moves forward: How his move to the Seattle Sounders affects...
"MLS was born the bastard child of self-loathing and self-doubt. We are apologetic to a fault when it comes to our league. The self-loathing is legendary and in many ways a hindrance. But it's borne of...
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Death of a ballplayer: Billy Dillon was about to sign a contract with the...
Take me to the mission,to the mission, to the placewhere it’s safeWilliam Michael Dillon, “The Mission” from Black Robes and LawyersPart 1: Billy Dillon's Last Normal DayWilliam Dillon watched moonlit...
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Keep Calm and Don't Breathe: The country's only high school underwater hockey...
The start of the National Underwater Hockey tournament has not gone exactly as planned for Cincinnati's Roger Bacon High School.On Friday, the first day of the round-robin competition, the team lost...
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The rise of roller derby: No longer WWE on wheels, the rapid growth of...
It's common to be wary about roller derby when approaching your first bout. There's an organic, but unhealthy cynicism toward the ability of high-level athletic competition being grown in a warehouse...
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Gridiron Olympians: Many former Olympians have tried (and mostly failed) to...
It’s Week 1 of the 2013 NFL season, and the New England Patriots have made their way west to Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y., to take on the Bills. The snow and cold have yet to fall on the...
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Utility, pleasure and goodness: What one writer learned about classical...
On a perfect night for September baseball at Washington Nationals Park last year, as his band played "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" toward the end of his I'm-still-as-manic-as-George-Brett-used-to-be show,...
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Two carries, six yards: When the Chargers acquired former No. 1 pick Ricky...
When the trade was consummated, Ricky Bell smiled.He smiled. And smiled. And smiled. And smiled. And smiled. He smiled toward friends. He smiled toward relatives. He smiled toward old teammates and new...
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Haunted by stupidity: From the moment he was drafted, Donovan McNabb has been...
Up until April 17th, 1999, by comparison, Donovan McNabb's life doesn't seem to have been all that stupid. His family endured racially-motivated vandalism while living in an all-white Chicago...
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'The NFL doesn't owe me anything': A former linebacker who was suing pro...
Standing on the sidelines watching players thud full force into each other at Jacksonville Jaguars training camp, former NFL linebacker Jeff Kopp recalls what finally made him realize something had to...
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The 2013 College Football Index
The 2013 CollegeFootball IndexnavigatedownAmericanACCBig 12Big TenConference USAIndependentsMACMountain WestPAC-12SECSun BeltgoogleplusfacebooktwitterAmericanupTier 1CincinnatiCincinnati has been a...
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It's personal: Why we love the silly, irrational, ridiculous, beautiful world...
Maybe your experience is similar.1 Parts of this chapter adapted from a piece that appeared at SB Nation on September 19, 2011. It's probably an hour after I intended to show up, but I'm here. I park...
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Stopping Jadeveon Clowney: Coaches from across college football have a plan...
Antonio "Tiny" Richardson's legacy as an All-SEC tackle should be judged by his status as a plug-and-play pass protector at the next level. The Tennessee junior is projected to be one of the first...
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Dreams Need Strong Shoulders: With poverty, violence and hopelessness rampant...
Usain Bolt took six strides and then ripped his singlet off over his head. It dropped to the ground, a crumpled pile of yellow fabric on the midnight blue track. Then he shouted, his mouth open wide,...
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The Anti-Monetizer: An interview with legendary sports agent Ron Shapiro on...
They speak a funny idiom, these boys from business school rushing around our world like crazed electrons.Take Mr. Nathan Hubbard, ex-CEO of Tickemaster now seeing dollar signs in tweets at Twitter. who...
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A good kid: Football in Alabama, and the lessons learned from a tragedy in...
This is why football is so important in Alabama.Otties William Brewer III, a good kid, failed algebra his freshman year at Southern Choctaw High School, which meant he was ineligible to play for Coach...
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NFL Season Preview
SB Nation's 2013NFL PREVIEWAFC NorthBaltimore RavensCincinnati BengalsCleveland BrownsPittsburgh SteelersAFC SouthHouston TexansIndianapolis ColtsJacksonville JaguarsTennessee TitansAFC EastBuffalo...
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