Issue May Really Be How Far Players Will Go to Gain an Advantage
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With items like over-the-counter pills and prescription injections, baseball playersâ medicine cabinets have expanded as unmistakably as their physiques.
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It is an all-for-one, one-for-all game if ever one existed. The complexity, the speed, the violence all dictate that, and even those who practice the team concept fervently sometimes find it isn&#39;t good enough.
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When the Giants play in Dallas on Sunday, the outcome may depend on how the Giantsâ aggressive defensive line performs against the Cowboysâ big and gifted offensive line.
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Notre Dame&#39;s offensive game plan this season might be to keep defenses off balance in the same manner pitchers like to vary speeds to keep hitters guessing.
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No matter how athletically gifted an aspiring young boxer may be, if the kid can&#39;t take the physical demands of training or the pain and punishment that is dished out in the ring, he or she won&#39;t last very long in the fight game.
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DENVER - They have arrived at this juncture in a blink of an eye. When you spend the entire postseason hammering home the notion that you absolutely, positively must not look ahead, then it can be a little bit startling when you suddenly glance up and realize you are nine innings from being sized for a World Series ring.
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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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SAITAMA, Japan -- If you were tied, without the ball, with 21.9 seconds to go and the other team's best player was sitting on the bench with an injured ankle, would you put someone on the line deliberately less than two seconds later?
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Overcoming a poor history can be tough in sports. Keeping a strong team consistently on top might be even harder.
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it&#39;s the sport that won&#39;t die, no matter what. You can have gamblers, psychotic fans, spouses that blab and players who cork.
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An early leader out of the gate faces stiff competition in the stretch.
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Usually at sporting events, people know who wins and who loses or who comes in first, second, third and so forth by the score. In fact, there is no other way to run athletic competitions; most would agree
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Steroids boost the body, but donât expect a âgotchaâ in a playerâs statistics.
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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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Science is well on the way to building a better athlete. Just try to stop it.
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It&#39;s in the nature of athletes to imagine themselves immortal, if not impervious to harm, as though they live by a different set of rules from ordinary people.
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In the aftermath of the fiasco that was the Pacers-Pistons game last Friday night, you would think that pro sports leagues would be looking to move fans farther away from the action.