A game away from glory
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ST. LOUIS It has often been said of the great pitchers that you get them early or you don&#39;t get them at all. Pedro Martinez, whose .
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Quite contrary to the notion that baseball would be much better off if Barry Bonds disappeared, the game not only deserves the Bonds denouement, it needs it for the sake of a raised consciousness.
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A game between two of the league&#39;s top scoring teams from last season wasn&#39;t pretty. Both the Kings and Sonics shot below 42 percent in the first half of last night&#39;s NBA game at KeyArena.
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Two of the league&#39;s most disappointing teams put on quite a show in prime time. And after all the wild plays and big offensive numbers Monday night, a phantom penalty, followed
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One thing is certain about the Eagles&#39; victory over the Dallas Cowboys on &quot;Monday Night Football&quot;: The game has been all but forgotten.
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Another day, another duff game. At least it had a semblance of meaning, featuring a once mighty side lurching from one nightmare to another against an embryonic team who are marginally improving.
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England v Azerbaijan - another game for the national side totally overshadowed by David Beckham. This is, of course, a not uncommon phenomena.
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A game between Oregon State and Notre Dame may not hold any special significance for the average college football fan. But for fans of the Beavers and Fighting Irish, a matchup of
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At least six national teams will be playing matches in California this month. The US, though, will not be among them.
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&quot;There are three teams deserving of playing in the national championship game. Someone&#39;s going to be left out of it, and it&#39;s not right.
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There's a battle royale brewing in Arizona that has little to do with the Patriots or the Giants.
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TAMPA -- Perhaps it would be foolish to consider last night's match against the Tampa Bay Lightning a must-win game.
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Bad-weather games can make for great theater at home but can be miserable for those on the field.
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90 mins: And so the curtain comes down on a match of very fine margins. Not an epic by any stretch of the imagination but both teams worked extremely hard but never really showed enough craft to open the opposition defence.
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A bunch of people think it&#39;s going to be a walkover, a blowout of mammoth proportions, a game during which the home team will be plucking students out of the stands to play by the third quarter.
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This is, in my opinion, one of the biggest games Manchester United have played for years. It may sound strange ahead of what is only the second game of the season, but don&#39;t think this is one they can afford to lose.
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Statistics in sport often tell only half  the story.