The Best Reality Show Ever
by Willie the Sports Hippie
In this great country of ours, opposites rule.  For instance, America is presently experiencing a fitness craze and an obesity crisis at the same time.  Thi
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Contenders and Pretenders
by Paz
Well, it’s that time of year again, when we separate the men from the boys. Or, as a teacher of mine used to say, the wheat from the chafe.  Either way, it’s time to examine those MLB teams that seem to be contending for a playoff
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Pitchers Who Can Win in October are the Only All-Stars that Matter
by Kenneth Drews
Nothing celebrates Major League Baseball's glory more than a tense game on an autumn night.  I was a seven year old Mets fan when I watched my first World Series in 1986, and the memory of Vin Scully's voice describing the final games
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Baseball Jukebox
by Willie the Sports Hippie
The Major League Baseball All-Star Game used to mean something to me. It was back in a day before interleague play, before there were too many teams (leading to joke all-stars like Mark Redman), before Bud Selig stepped in and gave the
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Can the Knicks be Fixed?
by Kenneth Drews
Where we are and How we got hereThe White Sox are currently the world champions, while the Cavaliers and Clippers were both second round playoff teams this year.  These events are not signs of a coming apocalypse, mere
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The Hotties of the World Cup
by Linda Sim
Americans are just not that into soccer.  We've become used to hearing this dribble drabble and take it to be true.  While other countries are known to shut down day to day business to watch and celebrate their national teams compete
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Are you Ready for Some Futbol?!
by Willie the Sports Hippie
To celebrate the dawning of the 2006 World Cup, I thought I’d keep a running diary of Saturday’s games. We’ve got Paraguay vs. England and Trinidad & Tobago vs. Sweden.  I slept thru the 1st half of the first game, but h
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Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell Don’t Watch Basketball
by Willie the Sports Hippie
If ever there was evidence for the evolution of species, the 2006 NBA playoffs are it.  There are no missing links.  Every series has required the winner to mutate in some unique way in order to survive. There are simply not
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What's the Deal with Larry Brown?
by Kenneth Drews
Isiah Thomas and Larry Brown. Yuck. No two people have joined forces to screw something up this badly since Michael Jackson's parents. And there are no two people in sports who so badly deserve to be fired (or, in the world of enormous guarant
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The Most Overrated MLB Player?
by Paz
A recent Sports Illustrated poll asked major league players to name the most overrated player in the game. The winner, by a fairly decent margin, was Derek Jeter, which has sparked outrage from fans and observers. So this got
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