Sports of The Times: A Ring Doesnât Ensure a Starâs Happiness
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At All-Star Weekend, a legend returns to stand alone, not with his team. And with the understanding that while the ring is great, the life was better for Earl Monroe.
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With all the hardware Tony Parker has racked up over the past several years playing for the NBA champion San Antonio Spurs, it's the latest addition to his collection &#151; his wedding ring &#151; that's on his mind.
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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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It&#39;s a conflict between personal faith and modern-day, big-money sports, a matter of private belief open to public scrutiny. And it poses a question: Where does an athlete&#39;s allegiance lie when religion collides with sport?
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I should&#39;ve known this latest Terrell Owens story wouldn&#39;t have vanished quickly. It involves sex, money, sports and, most critically, race.
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The Yankees and the Cardinals have won more World Series rings than any other teams in baseball. Which comes as cold comfort, if you happen to be enduring their agonizingly awful performances to date this year. Two fans, on coping with loss.
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It is a strange time in baseball. The announcement of Hall of Fame voting is due today, and the issue of performance-enhancing drugs was part of the thought process for voters in determining which of the boxes they checked off. Perhaps it wasn't quite as important as statistics and performance accolades, but, unfortunately, these are the times we live in ...
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The sport of boxing is customarily clouded by controversial decisions and suspect circumstances. So why should the world middleweight title fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena
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Goose Gossage can understand why some players would try steroids. With major league salaries so high, finding a way to extend a career is an awfully tempting proposition.
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When Kobe Bryant stood beside NBA commissioner David Stern last Sunday and accepted the All-Star Game MVP award, it capped a comeback for the superstar. Not because the award meant more than his three championship rings. Not because he went anywhere. But prior to his undergoing an attitude adjustment this season, Bryant was maligned and misunderstood -- someone other players ...
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The Shaq-Kobe split is a good example of why no-fault divorces caught on so quickly. They were never going to stay together, no matter how good the winning was.
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Cycling and track and field yanked their biggest stars off the marquee in a matter of days after they were implicated in doping cases. Now that those sports have turned summer's center stage back over to baseball, can fans still seething over the use of performance-enhancers expect the same kind of accountability?
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One yearâs winner can lose big in the next cycle.
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Perhaps the biggest fallacy in sports is the hoary notion -- repeated time and again by athletes and coaches -- that they don&#39;t read the newspapers or watch TV.
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Across the spectrum of mass-appeal professional sports, Americaâs greatest regional rivalry has not been a pretty sight for New York fans.
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Maybe none of us should be surprised that Reggie White&#39;s heart gave out today. Maybe it was just overworked. In 21 years covering the NFL, I&#39;ve seen few hearts as big and as generous as White&#39;s.
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It is really not much of a stretch to wonder if Omar Minayaâs Mets have been built to last.