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Se7en Up Se7en Down
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A Political Potion
Imagine, if you will, a drug of wonder. A potion so potent it can reverse the hands of time, bring terminally ill patients back from the brink, lop months from the recovery time for broken bones, restore eyesight, remove chronic pain, grow muscles, boost energy, increase stamina, increase sex appeal, and make the sad happy again.
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RJJ Picking Upsets
On the night Buster Douglas beat Mike Tyson in Tokyo he was a 42-to-1 underdog! When Leon Spinks dethroned Mohamed Ali, he was a 15-to-1 underdog. One of the things that makes boxing the great and exciting sport that it is, is the chance for the big upset.
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Kentucky Derby
Nudity, violence, and lots of money: it might sound like a great action film--except you’re living every minute of it. It’s the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, and it is known simply as the biggest party in the world.
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7 Hottest Sportscasters
On game day, nothing goes better with an ice-cold case of Heineken than a hotter-than-sin, modern-day goddess, slinging around game terms quicker than you can say, “I love this game.
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East Coast Baseball Bars
There’s no better way for a sports fan to take in a new town than to get up with a baseball game. Accordingly, there’s no better way to prepare for or cap a stay at the diamond than with a good bar.
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Bargain Ball
If you’ve got double-digit millions to hand out to a ballplayer, what you’ll get in return can hardly be satisfying for fans and, especially, the owners who supposedly cater to them. It’s like paying for a personal gig by U2 and, instead, getting a haircut from Vanilla Ice.
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Domestic Draft
NFL football, America’s new favorite pastime, has become a beast that many people dedicate themselves to year-round. So, no need to cry about those post-Super Bowl weekends anymore--it’s draft time, baby.
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Mickey Mantle
Mutt Mantle had given his son the nickname of the Hall-of-Famer Gordon Cochrane. This simple act of a baseball-loving father would prove prophetic.
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City DNA: Destination Louisville
Fulfill every aspect of the once-in-a-lifetime Derby experience with insider information off the track.
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Signature Access: NBA All-Star Weekend
The celebrity Hold ‘Em Shootout event, gourmet hot bar, and Body English after-party kicked off All-Star Weekend in Las Vegas at the Hard Rock Hotel with power and style.
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Class of ‘07
The Class of `07 was supposed to be the three-headed “thanks for being who you are and helping bring baseball back” trinity of Cal Ripken, Tony Gwynn, and Mark McGwire --a celebration like few in Cooperstown history.
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Method To The Madness
With 32 (umm make that 33) games in the first round alone, NCAA basketball’s March Madness gives #1 seeds, #16 seeds, and folks who wagered all their seeds fits of dementia before you can say “Diaper Dandy.”
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The Right Number
Yes, athletes and their jersey numbers have a significanct relationship that only those of us who have donned them can truly relate to. But that doesn’t make it any less interesting to the rest of you to know why they wear them, while fans sit on the sidelines and admire, especially while we’re wearing that replica jersey.
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The Face of Fighting
The 21st century’s most popular and exciting sport, Mixed Martial Arts (or MMA), can be traced back to the audacious ad that ran in the newspapers of Rio de Janeiro during the 1920s (see left).
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Steak in Rare Forum
While baseball may be America’s national pastime, football is this nation’s passion and obsession. That said, the start of baseball season is of much deeper significance than any other sport.
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Why We Like Isiah Thomas
Good things come in small packages. But sometimes they bring a little bad with them. A little “Bad Boy,” that is. Isiah Thomas--who represented that aforementioned moniker made famous by the Pistons team he captained--is a definitive example of that.
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Mastering Augusta
For years, CBS has referred to it as “an event unlike any other.” Some say the Masters transcends the world of sports, entering into the all-inclusive category of entertainment.
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David Beckham: Coming to America
Soccer in the United States changed forever on January 11, 2007, with the announcement that David Beckham would be leaving the Galacticos of Real Madrid to become a member of Major League Soccer and the Los Angeles Galaxy. The deal is reportedly worth a staggering $250 million for five years, the biggest sporting contract ever signed. “Not bad money,” said his new teammate Cobi Jones in the understatement of the 21st century.
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Royal Rumble: The Greatest Fight In History?
AJ Leibling once wrote that “a boxer’s fame is like a knight’s armor; it becomes the property of the man who beats him.” If that’s the case, then on May 5, 2007, “Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather, Jr. will likely strip the armor right off the face of boxing. As boxing’s charismatic, self-professed villain, he’s expected to dominate and dethrone the “Golden Boy,” handsome Oscar De La Hoya, who powerfully dictates the sport on almost every level.
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You Can’t Stop Him…
That’s T.O.’s M.O. Sure, every passing day is more proof that football’s prodigal prince and “wide-receiva-diva” will neither conform nor close his mouth. But Terrell Owens also wouldn’t be the most famous ball-snagger ever on just stats alone, making this three-ring athletic and ego circus the greatest show on earth.
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BJ Dishes the Rock
As the popularity of sports is experiencing tremendous growth, it hasn’t been gender-biased. Regional and national sports networks have realized that women and girls have “buying power” and that translates to the increase in ratings of women’s sports, not just figure skating and tennis, but basketball, too.
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Weak Legs?
Anyone who has watched Raging Bull or Rocky is familiar with the great efforts the main characters of those films exerted in avoiding sex before the big fight.
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Football & Free Cash
In a perfect world, pocket aces would always hold up, dealers would never draw to 21, and you would win all of your sports wagers.
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NHL Line Movers
According to several online sportsbooks sites I recently chatted with, namely Pinnacle Sports, Bodog, BetWWTS and The World Sports Exchange, the following 7 NHL players move the line more than any other during the regular season.
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That’s What Legacies Do
Back in 2005, at an HBO Boxing press conference, a brazen thief (and we’re not talking about Don King) picked Oscar De la Hoya’s pocket, stealing his wallet. In the wallet was one of the Golden Boy’s most important possessions, a food stamp worth exactly one dollar.
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Portal To The Past
For mixed-media artist Cedric Smith, moving from barber to acclaimed artist was no big deal. Trained as a snipper, Smith met an artist while cutting his hair.
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John Elway
When, with no time left on the clock in the fourth quarter, Kevin Moen smashed into an unsuspecting Stanford trombone player named Gary Tyrell ...
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Guys Who Owe Me Money
As any good sports bettor will tell you, the most important game is the game you have money on. Teams rely upon the performance of professional athletes to win games. But more importantly, many of us rely upon their performances to cover the point spread.
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If We Build It…
One Hundred Sixty-first Street and River Avenue Bronx, NY, is the address where Babe Ruth hit his 60th home run of the season, in 1927, and where Roger Maris set the last home-run record not deserving of an asterisk by hitting 61 in 1961.
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Strahan Grande
GERMANY. Victor Strahan is 13-years-old. Maybe 14. His brother Michael, younger by two years, is sitting next to him on the bus to school. They were raised on a military base and, like many kids in Germany at the time, the Strahan brothers were enamored with cars. Every morning on the way to school, the same game would start…
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Love ‘Em or Hate ‘Em
Barry Bonds is on a mission to prove he’s baseball’s most prolific slugger of all time. The fact is undisputable--Bonds will break Hank Aaron’s all-time career record in 2007.
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Kiawah Island
Of all the luxury resorts I have had the pleasure of visiting, this one was different. There was something odd going on here off the coast of South Carolina.
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Analyze like the Pros
It’s all about perspective. Everybody knew it, but the story goes that it was Wellington Mara who was the first to do something about it.
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WSOP Academy
Harrah’s and the WSOP have joined forces with Camp Hellmuth to create the ultimate poker training seminar.
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Steak in Rare Forum
While another football season winds down, we are faced with the harsh reality that, with the exception of March Madness, the best sports time of the year is coming to an end. . .
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