Never Showboat in the Olympics

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Lindsey Jacobellis blew it. She had an Olympic gold medal in hand with only two jumps left in the snowboard cross finals, and she decided to showboat. She came down on her heels and fell off the course. I hate to say it, but she deserved what she got. Tanja Frieden of...

No More Yankees in New England

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The Red Sox class A affiliate, the Lowell Spinners, are trying to get youth leagues to get rid of the yankee teams in their leagues. The Lowell Spinners have offered to pay for all new uniforms for teams that change their name to the Spinners from the Yankees. In a...

Texans keep David Carr for 3 more years

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The Texans have decided to exercise an $8 million option to extend David Carr’s contract for 3 years today. A lot of people are taking this to mean that they will be selecting Bush as the first draft pick this year. I am not so sure that that is the case. I see...

NFL defends the SuperBowl officiating

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The NFL has backed the officiating crew after Sunday’s SuperBowl. The NFL has defended the officiating in Super Bowl XL after claims that several bad calls affected the game’s outcome. […] The Super Bowl officiating crew, headed by referee Bill...

Steelers win SuperBowl; Jerome Bettis retires

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The Steelers won the Superbowl last night, and not surprisingly Jerome Bettis retired immiediately afterward. It’s funny, athletes always talk about ending their careers on top, but so few of them have any idea what that really means. When it’s time to...

Tour de France will start in London in 2007

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Next year’s Tour de France will start in London; this will be the third time that the Tour has passed through England and the first time that the race has begun there. “Hosting the first stage of the legendary French cycle race will raise the profile of...