The games weâve waited a year to watch
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After waiting for nearly 12 full months, Red Sox Nation sat down to take in the ALCS rematch between Boston and New York. The Red Sox had come within five outs of
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Thereâs still time for that movie (play, exhibition, game, pool concert) everyoneâs talking about.
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Midway through the race between Olympics past and present, this year's edition is outrunning its predecessor from four years ago.
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The start of the men&#39;s basketball bronze medal game was delayed more than a half-hour Saturday night after both the United States and Lithuania arrived wearing white uniforms.
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The IOC has a word of advice for organizers of the 2008 Olympics - prepare. Determined to avoid a repeat of the construction delays that threatened the Athens Games, Olympic officials arrived in Beijing on Wednesday.
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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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I don&#39;t know about you, but this season really doesn&#39;t feel like it&#39;s started yet. You just about get into the groove of a couple of matches in a row, and then some sodding international match pops up and that&#39;s it - everything goes on hold for two weeks.
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All that talk of the United States returning to the top of the basketball world will have to wait. The reality is that the Americans are no closer now than they were two years ago.
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For some of this yearâs Davis Cup teams, like Israelâs and South Koreaâs, the wait to rejoin the World Group has often seemed interminable. But the Americans cannot quite believe they are being asked to play again so soon.
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Baseball&#39;s steroid scandal could be seen coming six years ago. The Olympics have feared the one unfolding now for two decades.
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We learned that a year ago with three one-loss teams competing for two invitations to the BCS championship game in the first week of December.
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There&#39;s baseball&#39;s postseason, basketball&#39;s preseason, boxing&#39;s never-ending season, and the NFL in full swing. Every fourth year, there&#39;s a presidential race coming down the homestretch too.
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Picking the year's best and worst video games can be a lot harder than playing them. 2004 was a great year for gamers, with some of the most anticipated games of all time being released.
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The United States had lost nine straight Olympic matches, dating to the Atlanta Games in 1996. Clay Stanley made sure it didn't continue.
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BEIJING - Days after the euphoria of its record gold medal haul in Athens, China announced a sobering plan to delay construction of some venues for the 2008 Olympics and confirmed plans to cut down the extravagant features of two main stadiums here.
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THE OLYMPICS may have returned to the land of their birth, but even as these games wind down, the stadiums in Athens remain eerily empty.
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The 2008 Olympics are still a long way away but worries are already growing about whether it will become the first genetically enhanced competition in the crown jewel of international amateur sports.