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Canada Crashes Out At FIBA
Sep. 3 | A 0-5 record, including a loss to Lebanon, at the FIBA leaves Canadian basketball in utter tatters. How can a country with an NBA team make such a poor account of itself on the international stage? I’m not much interested in blaming the players....
Is That Really Ana Ivanovic?
Sep. 2 | By Leigh Sanders Watching my TV set yesterday evening as the sun began setting behind the beautiful South Wales hills, I watched a tanned little beauty dismantling Chinese star Zheng Jie, the No. 21 seed. As I watched a confident young lady slam home...
Jackie Robinson’s Obscure Scorecard
Aug. 24 | History Detectives looked into a scorecard for a barnstorming game in 1946. It’s a most interesting investigation and explores the world of Robinson, barnstorm games and intergration. Here’s a direct link to the video. yahooBuzzArticleHeadline...
Clemens, Mariotti: Now The Shoe Is On The Other Foot
Aug. 23 | By Beaker I’ve been away. Like you care. But I felt I should check in for my reader (Hi, mom. The voices haven’t stopped I’m afraid) and offer a couple of thoughts about Roger Clemens and Jay Mariotti. First, Clemens. Guy is a mean,...
Maxim Drags ESPN’S Standards Down
Aug. 3 | By Beaker We don’t generally single out articles or writers here at SP (if we did we’d have to change our format because heaven knows how much crap is out there) but sometimes -sometimes- some are so puerile they need to be called out. Take...
Class Eludes Contador
Jul. 21 | By Pelonton Jim Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught. ~J.C. Watts Well Alberto, you got...
Is Two Not Usually Better Than One?
Jul. 19 | By Leigh Sanders Speaking to a tennis-mad relative this week we were discussing last weekend’s inductions at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, RI, and how fans were staying away because the players on show weren’t considered ‘A-list’...
GEO-POLITICS AND AMERICAN ATHLETES DENIED OLYMPIC OPPORTUNITIES PROFILED
Jul. 9 | NEW YORK – The 30-year anniversary of the U.S. boycotted 1980 Moscow Olympic Games is July 19 – August 3. The United States, led by President Jimmy Carter, boycotted the Games in the U.S.S.R. in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan the previous...
KING TKO BOB PROBERT DIES
Jul. 6 | At the young age of 45, hockey player Bob Probert, one if not the toughest son of a bitch of his generation, passed away. We won’t know what happened until the autopsy is complete but early reports point to a heart attack. God trembles as he awaits...
