Surprise! Ratner&#39;s team can play to win
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It remains to be seen whether the Nets are as good with Vince Carter as they once were with Kenyon Martin, but at least they have made winning a priority again over in the Meadowlands.
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This fixture will be one of the toughest matches we&#39;ve faced this season because winning games in France is never easy. Sochaux are flying high in their own league, in third position, and that is no mean feat.
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The team that few thought could contend for an Atlantic Coast Conference title less than two months ago is now one game away from winning it on its first try.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - For all the talk about yesterday's season opener being a chess match, it turned out to be anything but. This wasn't about mind games. It was about one team imposing its will on the other.
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Kobe Bryant and the new Lakers had been searching for a signature victory, something to prove their revamped club still can play with the West&#39;s powers.
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Going 13-1 hasn&#39;t just assured the Eagles and Steelers of division titles. It&#39;s also made them the leaders in Pro Bowl players.
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A deal is never a deal until it&#39;s a deal. That may sound like something from the lips of Yogi Berra, but it&#39;s true. While everyone was waiting over the last few days to hear that the three-team trade between
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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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Knicks Coach Isiah Thomas may not have the lineup, the rotation or the style he envisioned in training camp. But fate has formed a team that may yet save his job over the next two months.
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Funny thing about pro sports. One team&#39;s mess is another team&#39;s messiah. In Toronto last week, the Vince Carter era came to a close, and not a minute too soon.
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It is rare, N.B.A. team executives say, that a player like Greg Oden possesses the physical prowess and crisp fundamentals that could alter a franchiseâs future.
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This was no miracle, but you could not tell by the amount of elation surrounding the Dream Team&#39;s trip to the woodshed Sunday.
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When you&#39;re part of a team that has just captured its first World Series title in 86 years, it&#39;s easy to get a little too caught up in the moment.
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Just when you think you&#39;ve seen it all, the Yankees devise a new way to win a game and torture their opponents. Last night, they somehow landed a spot in the American League
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Judging from our performance this weekend in New Hampshire, this M&amp;M&#39;s team has shown it deserves to be in this chase for the championship.
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It was one of the Indiana Pacers&#39; most impressive regular-season victories in several seasons, and so many people stood out. But if anyone should be singled out for the 109-104
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How many other teams can make news by finishing two-a-day practices with a bar fight -- not to mention one in which some Thundering Herd knucklehead maybe gives a ticket to the festivities to a player on a team they&#39;ll be playing next month?