Category: Sports
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Cheering for the Red Sox is so Aught 10
Those annoying fuckers who decided to become Red Sox fans after the perennial losers started winning have discovered a new passion — and this one has an accent. Actually, hipsters started gravitating to soccer a decade ago but The New York Times is just catching on. The ironic backpack set’s fervor assures I’ll never be…
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40 years ago tonight
“A black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol.” Vin Scully’s call of Hank Aaron’s record-breaking 715th HR says it all.
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‘An advertisement for the abolition’ of boxing
The 1982 Larry Holmes/Randall “Tex” Cobb fight, which prompted the famous line from Howard Cosell referenced in the headline, was as one-sided as you’ve heard. It led Cosell to vow to never again cover the sport, prompting Cobb to observe, “Hey, if it gets him to stop broadcasting NFL games, I’ll go play football for…
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The dynamic duo that could’ve been
I was robbed. If not for league politics, I would’ve grown up watching Pistol Pete Maravich and Dr. J play for my hometown Atlanta Hawks. Instead I got Armond Hill and John Drew. Said Julius Erving, “I have never looked forward to a basketball season as much as this one with the Hawks.” Maravich and…
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To far right, science = liberal conspiracy to destroy America
Two nights ago, PBS aired a devastating Frontline documentary about how the NFL has covered up the impact of concussions on generations of its players. The film chronicled the work of Dr. Bennet Omalu, who discovered the symptoms of the disease he named CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) after performing an autopsy on longtime NFL lineman Mike…
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Tennis at its most exhilarating
Jimmy Connors was/is something of an asshole, but he had everyone rooting for him during an improbable run to the semis in the 1991 U.S. Open.
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