Column: Players feeling different heat
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Question their motives, but baseball commissioner Bud Selig and his counterparts from around the world of sports were right about this much: The fight against doping won't be won simply by applying pressure from the top down.
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The Patriots can be healthy or hurting. The field can be drenched or dry. The opponent might have a stingy defense or a high-scoring offense. New England just keeps winning.
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Just as the Yankees predicted, the sun did come up after Tuesday night&#39;s historic 22-0 loss to the Indians. But the players awoke to a much different world, one in which the Yankees suddenly
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Foreign coaches and players often appear in a state of shock when first exposed to the conditions of professional soccer in the United States. The higher the level of their previous club, the greater the contrast when they arrive at their new team.
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There is a chance for fireworks during the NBA&#39;s doubleheader today, but the anticipation of overly physical play in sports often leads to the opposite result.
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With the temperature forecast for Sundayâs game in Green Bay falling, the Giants may want to rethink their decision to play in short sleeves.
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If anything, there will be a little more sizzle around the ballpark. There won't be so much focus on Julio Lugo's slump, or J.D. Drew's batting average, or Curt Schilling's injury, or the fact that there's not much of a race in the American League East right now.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., Dec. 16 -- Outside, a winter wind whipped across the icy parking lot of Giants Stadium, the field inside the place was caked hard with frost. But with the heaters churning inside the locker room Sunday night, the Washington Redskins laughed, the playoffs were suddenly in si...
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The manner in which the Americans have maintained their 10-game unbeaten streak has left the coaches and players inspired and concerned at the same time.
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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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The best athletes  can sense every  play before it even  happens. Coaches  have long assumed  that this magical  "field sense" was  unteachable. Maybe  they were wrong.
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The irony of players being less interested in being protected than the people charged to protect them is just one of the challenges facing the N.F.L. as it deals with player concussions.
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Most Red Sox players look like they need to be scrubbed, shaven and tied to a barber&#39;s chair for a buzz cut. Their team picture could be confused for a re-creation of The Last Supper or a casting call for the Broadway show Hair.
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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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As we head down the stretch of the season, the significance of each game will be amplified. While it is difficult to envision any team looking past an opponent at this juncture of the season
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They have been criticized roundly, at home and here in Europe, sometimes by their own coach. What the team lacks is to some observers more obvious than its attributes.
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Pass pressure has been poor, tackling sloppy and the intensity of earlier this season absent. Players appear tentative, confused and surprisingly ordinary.