Exclusion takes toll on players
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Duncan Fletcher admitted that the controversy surrounding EnglandÂ¡Â¯s tour to Zimbabwe had affected their performance in their opening win Sunday.
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The National Hockey League announced yesterday that it was locking out its players from midnight last night, a move that plunges the weakest of the major US sports into the gravest crisis in its history.
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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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The league is belatedly waking up to its behavioral problems, with the players leading the charge for harsher punishments.
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National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman, painting a bleak picture of the league&#39;s economic state, yesterday locked out players
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The majority of NFL assistant coaches are anonymous figures, blending into the sideline among a sea of players. But not this one.
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As its Olympic Games approach, the plight of  many of the country's retired sports stars, uneducated and impoverished, is drawing attention
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Since rotations are usually shorter during preseason games, players have to get accustomed to extended daylight. This puts a burden on their physical condition as well as their ability to maintain concentration.
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The Revolution have lost starting players to expansion drafts. But they also have been able to minimize their losses, expansion teams failing to pick up several Revolution players who have become starters and played a major part in the team's recent success.
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American fans may not care for cheating players, but those players havenât stained the game sufficiently to keep fans away.
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Awareness of the problem is growing, but few sports are taking vigorous, systematic steps to counteract it.
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NEW YORK -- Maybe 19 games going on 26 is too many. Maybe the familiarity that has brought contempt between the two combatants has also created boredom for those not in the two cities.
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DENVER - It is an indelible memory. Loud, too. "I can still hear him shouting at me," said David Cutcliffe of that warm fall day in 1994. "He just went over to one of the assistant coaches, grabbed the headphones, and yelled. He said, 'Coach Cut, I'm pitching bad because my catcher isn't calling a good game. You're the catcher. ...
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Many players are uncomfortable that, for the first time in 35 years, the N.B.A changed the only piece of equipment it uses: the ball.
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At this stage of the year, everything can be used as a lesson. For instance, how the Bruins respond to being without defensemen Zdeno Chara (sore hamstring) and Milan Jurcina (elbow contusion) and top-line wing Marco Sturm (chest cold).
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One week into the season, four NFL teams found out yesterday they'll be without key players the rest of the way.
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The NBA has numerous ills, but after last weekend&#39;s brawl in Auburn Hills, Mich., players jumping into the stands to fight fans probably is off the list.