Issue May Really Be How Far Players Will Go to Gain an Advantage
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With items like over-the-counter pills and prescription injections, baseball playersâ medicine cabinets have expanded as unmistakably as their physiques.
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Overcoming a poor history can be tough in sports. Keeping a strong team consistently on top might be even harder.
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Goose Gossage can understand why some players would try steroids. With major league salaries so high, finding a way to extend a career is an awfully tempting proposition.
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Competition usually means better odds for the gambler. Here's a case where the game got worse.
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Top stars make more than ever, but they raise the tide for the whole league.
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Most athletes will have back trouble sooner or later â if theyâre not suffering already. Hereâs what to do about it.
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Tom Coughlin and his staff drilled it into the players last week not to give up if the ball was not caught. The way the play develops, it could be a lateral and a live ball.
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Question their motives, but baseball commissioner Bud Selig and his counterparts from around the world of sports were right about this much: The fight against doping won't be won simply by applying pressure from the top down.
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One of Sven-Goran Eriksson&#39;s biggest concerns in the build up to internationals are players picking up various injuries. And that&#39;s exactly what has happened with striker Michael Owen, who faces
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US players are going to have to work harder than they wanted next year after finishing third at the World Basketball Championship, but the experience could pay golden dividends in 2008 at Beijing.
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The problem with having a lot to play for is the prospect of losing it all.
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It is an all-for-one, one-for-all game if ever one existed. The complexity, the speed, the violence all dictate that, and even those who practice the team concept fervently sometimes find it isn&#39;t good enough.
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DENVER - They have arrived at this juncture in a blink of an eye. When you spend the entire postseason hammering home the notion that you absolutely, positively must not look ahead, then it can be a little bit startling when you suddenly glance up and realize you are nine innings from being sized for a World Series ring.
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Sometimes you can just tell. It only takes a few minutes of action, one or two touches, a run off the ball. The talent is obvious, so is the self belief.
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San Diego -- The sports cliche about taking them one game at a time does not apply in a final-week drive for the playoffs. That, the players say, is looking too far ahead.
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The extra point is supposed to be a routine play. When you think about it, a lot of it is muscle memory. Snap, hold and a short kick by a former soccer player.
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By Douglas A. Kaid, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Jan. 31--LAKEWOOD RANCH -- Sometimes the other team is simply better. It's a tough thing to admit for competitors who spend all season trying to convince themselves they can't be beaten if they play their best.