[TS] Sports of The Times: Nothing Royal, and Thatâs Its Charm
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Quite simply, just plain Carnoustie is the working-class course named for this working-class town of 13,000 on the North Sea.
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IN THE ordinary course of events, the final fixture in a Champions League group that a team have won might have little meaning for staff or players.
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Steroids boost the body, but donât expect a âgotchaâ in a playerâs statistics.
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By sports editor Ross Stapleton. Baseball is not called Americaâs favourite past-time for nothing. It transcends professional sport and enjoys a special mythology all of its own with the public - pretty much the way cricket does here in Australia.
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You never hear the word ``unremarkable" associated with David Ortiz, but in this case, it's a good thing.
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No devalued currency here. No plastic parts. In a time when action is stopped every other night in every sport to celebrate another &quot;milestone&quot; with the presentation of a new SUV and a lifetime pass to immortality, Ichiro&#39;s work stands pretty much alone.
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The month of August was rife with arrogance, malfeasance and criminality in professional sports, but all is not lost for cynical fans seeking a new start.
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New M-rated, non-NFL game will feature off-field political fallout, on-field unnecessary roughness, and post-play partying. At least one sports video game publisher in the industry isn&#39;t bothered by the exclusive
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Without careful supervision, celebrity can override a playerâs character, as in the case of Maurice Clarett.
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It&#39;s just about the only sport left in which we haven&#39;t suffered a major international humiliation this year. (Unless, like me, you consider our nation&#39;s overreaction to Janet a major international humiliation.
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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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There was a nice little mini-drama last night with the Lakers playing in Seattle. Not as big of a deal as Kobe vs. Shaq or Kobe vs.
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LONDON The New York Yankees missed baseball&#39;s World Series, Real Madrid won nada in soccer, and the US men&#39;s Olympic basketball squad was a dream team only for its gratified opponents.
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Soccer players worldwide can now compete for an international trophy without having any athletic prowess.
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At the Jazz and Laker game, I realized there was something noticeably absent from the rafters. No, not the name of a waste management company, we have one of those. It was Adrian Dantley's retired jersey.
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It was a little thing, a tiny moment, a mere speck of the game.
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See, this is what happens when you win it all under the simple guise of just being the best team, absent the melodrama. You sweep the Rockies and neither Jimmy Fallon nor Drew Barrymore is anywhere in sight.