Spiteful game spills over
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The match on Sunday ended with United&#39;s 2-0 win. Ruud van Nistelrooy and Wayne Rooney scored. However, Van Nistelrooy will face a three-match ban for his foul on Arsenal&#39;s Ashley Cole after he was charged by the Football Association on Monday.
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Young teams are supposed to crumble when the games tighten and the nerves jangle and all those wily, crafty veterans make plays. Young teams aren&#39;t supposed to be in games like this, let alone force overtime, let alone win going away in the extra period.
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ST. LOUIS -- When St. Louis coach Mike Martz last week publicly chastised his team, he admonished players to make something happen and to do it immediately.
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There&#39;s a common misconception in the world of sports often voiced by beer-toting fans as if it were defensible in a court of law.
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Four out of five times these teams meet, there's something on the line: playoffs, league titles, etc. But even without something big at stake, there's always something to play for in this border rivalry -- playing for pride, for keeps, and for bragging rights.
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&#39;You suck! You&#39;re a piece of &amp;%$#*! You can&#39;t play worth *$#!% you loser, so SIT DOWN!!!&quot; That&#39;s what a guy was yelling at a visiting player during a White Sox-Angels game earlier this summer.
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For a while, it seemed the Ducks were going to play down to the level of their opponent Â again. Then the second period began.
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Phoenix Coyotes coach Wayne Gretzky called this game against the Florida Panthers his team's biggest of the season. It turned out to be a big disappointment.
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Blame a chair umpire named Mariana Alves for professional tennis going to the use of instant replay, because it&#39;s coming. When you screw up as badly as Alves did Tuesday night at the US Open
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There was a nice little mini-drama last night with the Lakers playing in Seattle. Not as big of a deal as Kobe vs. Shaq or Kobe vs.
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The game was a rout, the kind that causes viewers to flip to another channel long before the final buzzer.
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In the NFL, it used to be the object of the game was to get into the end zone. Now, the object of the game is to get into the end zone and act like a fool.
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Before last night&#39;s game with Tampa Bay at Fenway Park, every Boston player in sight was bombarded by questions about the drama that will be played out this weekend at Yankee Stadium against the Red Sox&#39; hated rivals.
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In the aftermath of the fiasco that was the Pacers-Pistons game last Friday night, you would think that pro sports leagues would be looking to move fans farther away from the action.
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The sacrificial firing of the Metsâ hitting coach has exposed tensions that until now have been held below the surface.
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If you&#39;re looking for nasty, for a football-style rivalry with two teams that just don&#39;t like each other, don&#39;t look here.
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The brawl has been over for four days, but there&#39;s still plenty to fight about. There was action on several fronts yesterday as the players, the teams, the fans, and law