Cheering Section: Adrift in the Weird World of Sports
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Through his camera lens, photographer Phil Noble has seen some of the wackiest sports on the planet.
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Still-unanswered questions temper many people's enthusiasm for the rebirth of the Nationals.
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If you happen to be at Stanford Stadium on Saturday and you see a man wearing Stanford garb, cheering with odd enthusiasm for Oregon, please understand.
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An 'elite' sport tries to pump up participation by appealing to a workout-mad America.
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Life & style: Blokarting, octopush, goalball - weird new fusion games are being invented all the time to encourage more people to play sport. Anyone for blackminton?
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At the end of every month, staff columnist Rick Carpiniello gives his unique perspective on the world of sports for the previous four weeks.
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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 annual Super Bowl Media Day extravaganza invariably features a collection of oddballs masquerading as journalists who attempt to draw attention to themselves by wearing outlandish get-ups and posing inane questions that will elicit the most shock value.
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We are in the midst of whatâs usually a prime season for sporting events. So why have most of them lost their luster?
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With enough glitz, kitch and corporate sponsorships to make Las Vegas blush, welcome to the new and weird (yet weirdly underwhelming) epicenter of world boxing
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On the eve of a major Test series, with the eyes of the cricketing world focused on it, one would have liked to write about the subtle intricacies of a five-day game that enthrall a sports fan.
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Stand up and cheer for the giant or the underdog -- or perhaps both.
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In some countries, the national spectator sport is soccer or tennis. In Ukraine, the joke goes, it's elections.
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Statistics in sport often tell only half  the story.
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The city's dominance in football, baseball, and basketball has fans in a rare feel-good mood.
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Many athletes exude ideals of Games, from embraces in the pool to a fencing timeout. By Mark Sappenfield | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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a situation for which everything from video games and junk food to the popularity of other sports like basketball is blamed â-ore