Sporting News
Here Comes Louisville
With his two big men from last year’s national championship basketball team now earning paychecks in the NBA, Rick Pitino’s Louisville Cardinals remain somewhat of a dark horse for the upcoming ‘March Madness’. But don’t count them out just yet. Sure the Cardinals lost 5 games this season and ended up ranked number eleven. But take a look at the …
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Junior Gambles Big At Las Vegas
Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his crew chief threw the dice at the Kobalt Tools 400 in Las Vegas and it came oh so very close to working. They were about 300 yards short of the checkered flag when Oh, Drat!… the number 88 car ran dry of fuel and the big 600 horse power Chevy engine stopped running. Dale was …
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Jimmy Grahm Stuck At Tight End
Jimmy Graham has about five million reasons to want to be classified as a wide receiver, where he plays about two thirds of the time, and a tight end which is what he signed on with the Saints as. It sounds like just a matter of terminology but it’s causing quite a stir down in the ‘Big Easy’. No Saints …
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All Eyes On Augusta
The stately links of the Augusta National Golf Club are the apex of the golfing world. Augusta is the top of the mountain that every professional golfer who has ever put on a set of spikes aspires to, it’s the Super Bowl of Golf! Although there are three other major championships on the PGA Tour, the Masters is played each …
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The NBA Has A New Silver Lining
It was obvious to all of those listening to the new commissioner of the NBA that the man loves basketball and loves the NBA. In stark contrast to the often detached and somewhat dry mannerisms of retiring Commissioner David Stern, Adam Silver let his emotions show in his opening speech as the league’s new head guy. He told the audience …
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Changing Times In The NFL
This month there will be a meeting of the NFL owners to discuss the state of the league and consider some proposed rules changes that have been talked about for some time now. While it is true that the NFL Commissioner’s office runs the league, these guys run the commissioner’s office. They pay Roger Goodell over $30,000,000 per year to …
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Blackhawks Slam Penguins In The Snow
The Chicago Blackhawks hosted the Pittsburg Penguins at legendary Soldier Field in Chicago in what looked like a blizzard on television. Workers were constantly scrambling to clear the ice of excess snow as it continuously came down all during the match. The feature NHL game was yet another in the very popular ‘Stadium Series’ being offered by the league which …
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Collinito Conspiracy At Gulfstream Park?
How would you like to have watched your horse cross the finish line first, be declared the winner and then have the dreaded “Inquiry” light come up on the big board. That would be a drag, right? Well, what if that horse winning the race would have won you around 1.66 Million Bucks? 15-to-1 shot Collinito led the 12th race …
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New Rules On Homeplate Collisions
The change has been coming for some time now. How many times have you cringed seeing a base runner bearing down at full speed on a squatting catcher? TV commentators and sports writers have been talking about the dangers involved in home plate collisions and good players have gotten hurt, either trying to make it to home plate, or trying …
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CAPA Petitions NLRB Against NCAA
When student athletes at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois first publicly acclaimed their plan to unionize, the University countered with ‘Players (student athletes) are not employees essentially because college athletics is part of the overall educational experience. However, if we were to ask the numerous students performing non-athletic jobs for the university for pay, it’s doubtful that they would call …
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