All-Star Format Change: Pit U.S. vs. The World
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The NBA All-Star Game is getting stale, and the way to fix it is to pit American players against international players, playing not for show but for pride.
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The NBA is changing the way teams are seeded in the postseason, looking to avoid the controversy that surrounded last season's playoffs.
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It's bull vs. bear in a 15-round free-for-all. Want a ringside seat?
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The purists went berserk back in 1993. They hated the idea. The wild card was bad for baseball. Just wait and see.
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The NBA all-stars finally got their act together to edge out Spain in a close fought quarter final. The US team finally got its act together today to beat Spain in a tense, close-fought and ultimately acrimonious quarter-final in Athens.
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The United States basketball team didn&#39;t just lose to Argentina and, with it, a chance to play for the Olympic gold medal. The high-priced roster of NBA players might have lost something even more precious than that: the world&#39;s respect.
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U.S. Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger has switched the playing format for the opening session of this year's matches in Louisville, Kentucky, from fourballs to foursomes.
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Welcome to The Show! On Tuesday night, the St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox will face off in Game 3 of the World Series. While you are watching the game, stay logged onto The Show to chat with other
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The numbers are so one-sided, it&#039;s startling. The American League is 8-0-1 in the last nine All-Star games. AL teams also swept the past two World Series and won an overwhelming 61 percent of interleague games against the NL this season.
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Palm Beach Gardens, FL (Sports Network) - The PGA of America announced changes to its point system for selecting the United States Ryder Cup team on Thursday.
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The Sporting News - Questions to ponder why wondering if the world has gone all a flitter over the Charlotte (don't call them Hornets) Bobcats after their all-access run on the World Wide Leader:
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Promoted as â âWide World of Sportsâ meets the Big Apple,â âStreet Gamesâ will traverse the five boroughs in 10 half-hour episodes that focus on rarely televised activities like handball and roller derby.
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The US Ryder Cup qualifying system has been revamped for 2006 after heavy criticism following the American team&#39;s thrashing by Europe in this year&#39;s event.
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The Sporting News - Some of you may know, this is my first offseason covering baseball -- I had been Sporting News' NBA writer for seven years or so. My man Stan McNeal has that beat well-covered now, and I am sticking with MLB, a switch we made at the end of the World Series.
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By Michael Hiestand  CBS' NCAA men's basketball tournament coverage is one of the more unchanging formulas in TV sports, presumably delighting viewers who like their sports served straight, rather than as show biz.    But it could be tweaked.
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End of American basketball supremacy. Argentina 89, US 81. Semifinal loss means NBA stars will play for bronze. &quot;We tried as hard as we could,&quot; US Dream Team member Allen Iverson said after loss.
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The most realistic change in format would be the so-called Plus One postseason model, which would essentially have the top two ranked teams play after the five B.C.S. games.