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Rick Reilly smears Tiger Woods
In San Jose, Calif., this week, Kevin Woods will sit in his wheelchair a few feet from his television, watching his half-brother play the Masters. He has to. He can't see otherwise. Can't stand much lately, either. Can barely use his left arm at all. He can feel his hands and feet going a little more numb every day. Kevin was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2009, and it's not getting better.More » -
The Curious Case Of Sidd Finch
He's a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. Impressively liberated from our opulent life-style, Sidd's deciding about yoga—and his future in baseball. -
Tebow, Tailgating, And Team Loyalty: Why The NFL Needs Nice Guys More Than Ever
The story of Tim Tebow and Peyton Manning is, in part, about picking between two reasonable causes for nervousness: a young quarterback whose tendency to come back in the fourth quarter made it easy to ignore his tendency to get behind in the fourth quarter in the first place, or a 36-year-old veteran coming off a missed season and a bunch of neck surgeries.. . -
College battle tops list of best defunct rivalries
With fierce winds of realignment swirling about college football, last weekend we might have seen the end of some historic rivalries, dating back to two centuries ago.
Have Missouri and Kansas played the last edition of the Border War, which began as a real war with real bloodshed? Are Texas and Texas A&M really putting the Lone Star battle on hiatus, or is the Texas legislature or ex-Aggie Yell Leader Ricky Perry going to do something about it? The Backyard Brawl might survive, but is it ever going to be the same now that both teams have signed up to bolt the Big East, to different conferences?
In the BCS era, disappearing rivalries unfortunately are becoming routine. Oklahoma and Nebraska used to have one of the top five rivalries in college football, but now they no longer play each other, opting to fill up their schedules with Utah State and Idaho instead. Ditto West Virginia and Virginia Tech, as the Black Diamond Trophy has been gathering dust in a storeroom in Blacksburg since 2005.More »
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