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The NBA Embraces The Positional Revolution In A Very Subtle Way
The NBA removed the center position from the All Star ballot this year. In a move that reflects the league-wide trend away from traditional positional distinctions, fans will instead vote for two...
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The 15 Best Quarterbacks In The NFL Right Now
With nearly half of the NFL season gone, the quarterback hierarchy is finally reverting to form. By averaging three very different statistical metrics — traditional QB rating, ESPN's Total QBR, and...
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NFL Referees Will Be Using Pink Penalty Flags During Sunday's Dolphins-Jets Game
The NFL's breast cancer awareness campaign has expanded a lot in its fourth season this year. Numerous aspects of a player's uniform can be pink during the month of October to support the cause. This...
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This Behind-The-Back Drop Shot Might Be The Tennis Shot Of The Year
This comes from an indoor tournament in Switzerland between Grigor Dimitrov and Viktor Troicki. The 62nd-ranked Dimitrov hit an insane behind-the-back drop shot by seemingly dangling his racquet behind...
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Famed Coach Wants To Lower The Rims In Women's Basketball To Make Sport More...
Geno Auriemma, who has led the University of Connecticut's women's basketball team to seven national titles, feels the sport is not as popular as it should be. And to fix the problem, Auriemma told the...
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The San Francisco Giants Mistakenly Sold Hunter Pence's Historic Bat, And He...
Hunter Pence had one of the biggest, and strangest, hits in NLCS history, all because of a broken bat. The same bat hit the ball three times in one swing, putting a knuckle on the ball in play,...
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Awesome Old-Timey Photos Show You How Much Less Intense The World Series Was...
The Library of Congress has a great collection of old World Series photos. When taken together, they give you a glimpse of what the Fall Classic was like 100 years ago — when the players were miniature...
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The 10 Highest-Paid Players In This Year's World Series
Despite the success of some small-payroll teams in Major League Baseball this season, the two teams in the World Series are both among the eight teams with the largest payrolls. The Tigers ($132.3...
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Sandoval Becomes Unlikely Hero, Ties World Series Record With Three Home Runs...
Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval did something that had only happened four times in the history of baseball. He hit three home runs in a World Series game to carry San Francisco to a game one...
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Olympic Hurdler Lolo Jones Could Be America's Next Bobsled Star
Sandy Caligiore, Special to USA TODAY Sports LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- Lolo Jones' future as a bobsledder hangs in the balance Thursday morning as a committee selects the push athletes for the U.S. men's...
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Romanians Accused Of Dubious Tactics At The World Angling Championships
England suffered a heavy defeat at this year's World Carp Angling Championships, but the team says the odds were stacked against them due to questionable Romanian tactics. The world of competitive...
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Three Clips That Sum Up Justin Verlander's Dismal World Series Performance
If you would have been told before the season that Justin Verlander was going to face Barry Zito in game one of the World Series, you would have thought the Giants were in for a world of hurt. But it...
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The Lakers' Awful Preseason Has Exposed A Major Flaw
The Lakers are 0-7 in the preseason for a very simple reason: depth. The starting five of Steve Nash, Kobe Bryant, Metta World Peace, Pau Gasol, and Dwight Howard is terrifying. But look what the bench...
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Report: Eva Longoria Dumped Mark Sanchez Because He's Always In A Bad Mood...
Pretty couple Mark Sanchez and Eva Longoria broke up recently after dating for just a few months. Why such an abrupt ending to the relationship? TMZ is reporting that the Jets are to blame. Sources...
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LeBron James Fakes Out Two Defenders With A Harlem Globetrotters Move
LeBron James evaded two Wizards with a fake behind-the-back pass that's really a between-the-legs dribble. Stick around for the slo-mo replay (via TBJ): Please follow Sports Page on Twitter and...
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Bill Belichick Has A Plan To Fix NFL Overtime
Bill Belichick was on WEEI radio in Boston this week, and he had some interesting things to say about overtime in the NFL. The Patriots coach doesn't like the current rules, and says overtime should...
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A Live Shark Fell Out Of The Sky And Landed On A Golf Course
Today in weird news: a shark fell out of the sky onto the 12th tee box at a golf course in California. The shark was wounded and bloody but alive, according to the Capistrano Dispatch. It was about...
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The Least Liked Players In The NFL
Forbes.com just released its annual "Least Liked NFL players" list. Collaborating with Nielsen, Forbes surveyed NFL fans to figure out which players they couldn't stand. General consensus from Forbes:...
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Cheerleader With A Prosthetic Leg Nominated For A College Football Award
If Patience Beard's prosthetic leg didn't have zebra stripes, you might not know that the Arkansas cheerleader had one of her legs amputated as a child. And she is doing so well, that she has been...
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David Stern To Step Down As NBA Commissioner In February 2014
Long-time NBA commissioner David Stern will step down on February 1, 2014, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports reports. Stern is 70 years old, and has been the commissioner since 1984. He will be...
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