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NFL Gets New Crop Of Young Quarterbacks
After all the rampant speculation and endless “mock drafts,” this years’ crop of rookie quarterbacks into the NFL brought quite a few surprises to both fans and sports writers as well, and probably to more than one of the brand new shinny quarterbacks waiting to enter the hallowed halls of professional football. These guys are all excellent athletes. They are …
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LBJ Wins NBA MVP, Again
To no ones great surprise, LeBron James has won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award for the fourth time. James now joins a rather heady group of Hall of Fame NBA players whose names are known to anyone who has ever followed the game. Kareen Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain are the only other members of the …
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50 Year Old Jockey Riding In 2013 Triple Crown Races
Hall of Fame Jockey Gary Stevens just could not stay in the booth. He could not stay away from the track even though he has been retired from horse racing for over 7 years and working as a racing commentator. Now he is making a big comeback and will be riding Oxbow in the Kentucky Derby and perhaps on to …
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Deer Antler Spray Gets Ok From Wada
The scandals that have been paraded before us for the past year or more concerning the use of Deer Antler Extract Spray by professional athletes would have been funny if they had not gotten so many well meaning players into trouble. Big time Major League Baseball players were brought low when suddenly their names were plastered in front of the …
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New NCAA Rules Ban Hashtags
The NCAA, in its infinite wisdom, has banned the use of Twitter “hashtags” from the football field not a moment too soon. How tacky that would be. We are already in danger of having our traditional sporting events taken over by rampant commercialism. Spelling it out in the end zone smells of overkill. Mississippi State University, down in Starkville, began …
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Louisiana State Sends A Record 16 Players To The NFL
LSU Tigers fans were both very proud and very sad on NFL Draft day. The Tigers sent 16 players off of last year’s team to the pros. It was an amazing accomplishment for any college football program. 16 guys gone to the NFL. But wait a minute what about next year? Seldom has a college football program taken such a …
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Golfing With PED’s
Vijay Singh revealed in a magazine interview back in January that he had used deer antler spray, which contains small amounts of IGH-1 which is a muscle-building hormone banned by the PGA Tour and is only detected in blood tests. Singh joins an ever growing file of professional athletes who have tried to boost their athletic prowess by using deer …
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What’s Next For Kobe Bryant & The Lakers?
The Los Angeles Lakers worst season in living memory is finally over and not a minute too soon. The team would probably have been better off not to have made the playoffs despite Kobe’s heroic efforts to get them there. The playoffs were ugly, the first time that the Lakers have been shut out 4-0 since they have been called …
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Phil Jackson Is Looking For Work
Phil Jackson has more NBA Championship rings than he has fingers. He probably has enough money to buy an island in the tropics and swing in a hammock sipping Margaritas for the rest of his days. He surely doesn’t need the stress and strife at his age. So why does he do it? It’s the game itself that draws him …
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25% Of NFL Draftees Came From The SEC
It was a big day for the boys from down south up at Radio City Music Hall in New York City where the NFL held their annual draft ceremonies. This was the day that college football players all across the country have been dreaming about for most of their lives. This was the day that a player could make the …
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