One nation finals are a big yawn
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If there were such a thing as a third-place play-off in Grand Slam tennis, you can rest assured that the American television networks would have opted to screen it yesterday evening
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To appreciate the talent that Canada has brought to the world junior championships, consider that coaches and players were miffed Sunday about their subpar performance
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THE World Cup Finals are more than a year away, but disappointment is already taking hold.
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The coach and the players were pleased. The fans seemed indifferent. The media was split. Reaction to Italy&#39;s 1-0 win against Finland with an experimental squad devoid of all the top
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The Knicks and Nets met again on Tuesday, but the scene would have been unrecognizable to anyone who watched their playoff rumble of last spring.
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If the fans in the stands start yawning, Finland will know it&#39;s doing something right in the World Cup finale. In fact, tedium will be just fine for Finland if it means the suffocating checking style it has used to get this far is working against Canada.
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Last year it ended with a yawn. Matt Kenseth showed up for NASCAR&#39;s season finale here at Homestead-Miami Speedway with the championship already in the bag.
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Tim Duncan, Gregg Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs woke up Tuesday facing a new identity: They&#039;re no longer the best team in the NBA, the Western Conference or even their division.
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Game 2 of the NBA finals lost nearly one-third of its television audience from last year.
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At least the "Bad Boys" kept their shenanigans on the court when they were wreaking havoc in the NBA. Nowadays there are enough mug shots out there to spawn a new trading card industry. Players are doing and saying things that defy common sense, annoying fans with their high-priced whines. Wins seem to rank only slightly ahead of endorsement opportunities and monster contracts, and those "knuckleheads" Karl Malone once dissed haven't gotten a clue yet.
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They score in only dribs and drabs, like a kitchen faucet dripping . . . ever . . . so . . . slowly . . . in the middle of the night, which won't make for much of a 2007-08 highlight reel when NESN gets around to editing "Spoked-B Fever!"
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The Nets greeted the first visit of the season from their hated rivals last night with the same sense of giddiness as the news that the dry cleaning is ready for pick-up, or that PSE&amp;G
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Each time I leave one of these championship games, I am not convinced that the right teams have reached the championship round. The current system needs to be fixed.
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The West Indian players and their supporters must be sick to death of reading comments that are highly critical of the way they have played in this series.
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The Raptors traded that Carter fella. And come to think of it, those Carter-McGrady showdowns often turned out to be kind of boring.
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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP--Too little, too light, and much too tight. Itâs the dismal story of the US Ryder Cup team, and itâs being repeated right here in our own neighborhood.
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Rajon Rondo might not play. The offense is sluggish. The defense is passable, but getting lazy. What a perfect time to be seeing the hottest team in the NBA!