The games weâve waited a year to watch
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After waiting for nearly 12 full months, Red Sox Nation sat down to take in the ALCS rematch between Boston and New York. The Red Sox had come within five outs of
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One thing you learn over the years is how Indian spectators love to get involved, even when the match is as dead as this one. It places them in a unique position and the pity is that a game that offered so much turned out the way it did.
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The season once held so much promise. There were gold medal dreams, Grand Slam possibilities and aspirations of continued dominance.
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Wait Till Last Year. Has a nice ring to it, no? For 85 years Red Sox fans moaned about why the Sox didn't win, and looked ahead with the highest of hopes. They wandered, zombie-like, insisting, "This is the year." Now they just want to go back in time and keep things going the way they were at the end ...
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The IOC has a word of advice for organizers of the 2008 Olympics - prepare. Determined to avoid a repeat of the construction delays that threatened the Athens Games, Olympic officials arrived in Beijing on Wednesday.
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In the world of sports, when a great feat is accomplished, sometimes it takes a while for everything to set in and for people to gain a full appreciation for what just transpired.
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We learned that a year ago with three one-loss teams competing for two invitations to the BCS championship game in the first week of December.
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NEW YORK  - Midway through the race  between Olympics past and present, this year's edition is  outrunning its predecessor from four years ago.
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BOSTON -- A year ago, the anticipated press conference to herald the arrival of Nomar Garciaparraâs replacement at shortstop never happened.
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The 2004 Olympic games in Athens, Greece, have been attracting a growing worldwide audience since they began August 13. Particularly attentive have been Greek-Americans.
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They'd already won another set of global gold medals during the summer, but there still was a bit of unfinished business here from last year's victory.
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Although the grand slam silverware has  been doled out for the 2004 season there is still much pride  and prize money to play for as the tennis year creeps toward  its climax.
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When I compare the current attack of the Olympics with the original Games in ancient Greece, a theme emerges. Back then, athletes were occasionally disemboweled and those who stepped over the line were flogged.
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The countdown clock is ticking -- 1,066 days and counting -- and optimism is running high in Vancouver with less than three years to go before the 2010 Winter Games. With the recent groundbreaking of the curling site at Hillcrest, construction on all of the competitive venues is underway and should be finished with well over a year to spare.
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ATHENS - Ten seconds. Barely time enough to tie a shoe, wash a glass, get the paper off the porch. But when the moment comes, and eight men kneel at their blocks and peer down the empty, waiting track, it is as if the entire Olympics stop to watch.
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Frustration set in quickly for Andre Callender. He had already waited a whole year, and now he had to wait another game to play college football.
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Years of ignoring or downplaying steroid use among athletes have come back to haunt baseball and Olympics officials. By STEVE WILSTEIN.