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Canada Crashes Out At FIBA

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?

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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...

VENUS WILLIAMS DESERVES ALL THE ATTENTION SHE RECEIVES

VENUS WILLIAMS DESERVES ALL THE ATTENTION SHE RECEIVES

Jun. 29 | By Ritesh Gupta Venus Williams deserves the every bit of attention she gets from all the quarters. Be it for her exploits on the WTA Tour, her collection of seven Grand Slam singles titles or her tenure at the top, she deserves all the adulation for her...