The True Villain

By bsd987, Section Other Sports
Posted on Thu May 08 2008 at 11:39 PM EST
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Eight Belles wasn't the only sign of death on Saturday at Churchill Downs.

Horse racing will die too, at least in the United States. It must. I don't want to say it and it hurts, but there seems to be no other alternative right now.

Sure, there are solutions, fixes if you will, but nobody is going to listen; nobody, that is, with the power to listen.

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Loss of Jamiel Shaw's Life Transcends Sports

By dgrassi, Section Other Sports
Posted on Mon Apr 28 2008 at 9:15 PM EST
More on: Sports, Illegal Immigration, Government, Football (all tags)

The story of Jamiel Shaw, Jr., as reported, is not that of sensation but rather that of the war between our communities and our federal, state and local governments. For they have dropped the ball, not Jamiel, not his family, not his neighborhood.

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The Reality of the Pretend

By Giantsfan227, Section Other Sports
Posted on Fri Apr 25 2008 at 1:11 PM EST
More on: World Wrestling Entertainment (all tags)

   I have been a die-hard sports fan for years. But contrary to one's normal beliefs, growing up, my favorite sport wasn't football, basketball, or baseball. My favorite sport in my early years was one that some argue is more of a soap opera than a sport; professional wrestling.

            I grew up in what was known as the "Attitude Era," where the Undertaker buried people alive, Austin 3:16 raised hell throughout the WWF, Degeneration-X had just two words for us, and we all smelled what the Rock was cookin'.

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Top 10 Upsets of the Last 28 Years

By JDWC, Section Other Sports
Posted on Mon Feb 04 2008 at 6:10 PM EST
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The perfect way to start off my 2008 Sportscolumn writing season is to create one of my favorite things in the world: a top ten list. I decided, what with all the upsets in college football this year, that a list of the top ten upsets would suffice nicely this article. But then I thought, "There's no way I can handle the pressure of narrowing all the upsets in sports history to a top ten list!!"

So I made my own job a little easier by narrowing it down to the ten greatest upsets of the last 28 years. Why? First of all, I'm barely 19 years old so I prefer to make a list out of things I know well and secondly because it sets the stage for the year 1980 to be included in my countdown. Foreshadowing? Hmm...

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Unanswered Questions of 2007

By Flemish American, Section Other Sports
Posted on Thu Dec 27 2007 at 10:50 AM EST
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2007 is almost done and sports fans around the globe have questions that remain unanswered.  

One question has a chance of being settled in 2008 if the New England Patriots manage to finish the season and run through the play-offs to a Superbowl victory without a defeat.  Unfortunately, many others will never be answered on the field of play and we are left to speculate on the hypothetical.

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Tribute

By AdamStan, Section Other Sports
Posted on Thu Dec 13 2007 at 10:41 PM EST
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   I was born the oldest of two kids, five years older than my sister, Audrey. Within weeks of my birth, my mother and I moved to Fort Bragg, North Carolina where my dad was stationed in the Army as a paratrooper in the 82d Airborne Division, also called the All-American Division.

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Driving to an End: NASCAR's Impact on the Environment

By jwalte04, Section Other Sports
Posted on Sun Dec 02 2007 at 8:57 PM EST
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I hate NASCAR.  Hate it.  I can see cars driving anywhere and at any time.  The last thing I want to do is watch 500 miles of it on a track that goes nowhere.  Yes, I have heard it all, "It's the environment and the people surrounding the race", and "THEY ARE JUST SO FAST, IT'S AWESOME".  I get it.  Not to knock these...drivers?  I certainly can't call them athletes, though what they do is very dangerous.  But I just feel that it takes no athletic skill to drive a car at high speeds.  Maybe I just haven't done it, but I feel that it has more to do with mental awareness and attentiveness.

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Shred the Rack: Why bowling will never be a mainline sport

By ClassicRocker06, Section Other Sports
Posted on Sun Nov 18 2007 at 12:59 AM EST
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By Billy Fellin

I would be willing to bet that anyone who reads this column has been bowling before. Whether it would be a rainy day activity with friends or that cool birthday party when you were 5, most of us at one point or another have thrown a bowling ball down the lane. But how many of us actually would consider it a sport that takes just as much work as football, baseball, hockey or basketball? Or even a legitimate sport at all, able to even be mentioned in the same sentence as the four sports previously listed. Certainly fewer people than have ever bowled in their life actually take bowling seriously and consider it a thriving sport. I am one of the rare people who take bowling seriously, but I don't think it will ever become a mainstream sport that people will jump up to watch as they do for football and baseball.

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Red Rover, Red Rover Send Blackburn Right Over

By Trevor, Section Other Sports
Posted on Mon Oct 29 2007 at 10:49 AM EST
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by Trevor Freeman

With the San Francisco 49ers out of the playoff hunt in October for another season and college basketball still a couple weeks away, I figured it was time to talk about my newest sporting love.  The Blackburn Rovers.  That's right, not only have I not written for our site for over a month, but when I do I am hopping in on the topic of English Premier League Football.  I have officially shifted gears to become the Vinnie Chase of our site.  I am only writing articles that satisfy my own creative/sports needs.

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An Essay of Sorts on Why I'm Entirely Responsible for the Success and Failures of my Team

By bsd987, Section Other Sports
Posted on Tue Oct 23 2007 at 1:30 PM EST
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If I'm to believe a recent survey, and I'm not, then 20 percent of sports fans believe that their actions influence their team's performance. Do you know how silly that sounds? One-in-five think that they have an impact on the game?

Firstly, only one-in-five admits this; I know an additional one-in-five are too embarrassed about it and another one-in-five can't mention it because speaking about it would jinx their team. And secondly, we don't think that we alter the event; we know it.

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