[TS] Sports of The Times: A Rakish Sabbatini Yuks It Up
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It is difficult to square the outrageous Rory Sabbatini with the PGA Tourâs conservative khakiklatsch of players with IIIâs after their names.
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&#39;You suck! You&#39;re a piece of &amp;%$#*! You can&#39;t play worth *$#!% you loser, so SIT DOWN!!!&quot; That&#39;s what a guy was yelling at a visiting player during a White Sox-Angels game earlier this summer.
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It's different now. There are people who claim to be members of Red Sox Nation who have no idea that Bucky Dent's middle name is Bleeping. There are people under pink hats wearing PEDROIA jerseys who think Big Papi, not Ted Williams, is the greatest hitter who ever lived. They don't know that there was a guy named ...
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Our position is: Steroid scandal grows out of a culture that accepts winning at any cost. Shock, outrage and uproar have surrounded New York Yankees slugger Jason Giambi&#39;s admission that he used steroids and
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The intense motivations of a bizarre NBA superstar
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El-Hadji Diouf is back doing what he appears to do best - spitting on people. Not content with covering a variety of fans with spittle he has now targeted his fellow professionals.
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Itâs that time of the year again. Sachin Tendulkar has - as he has made it a habit â-cored that one biggie after a series of no-shows to shut his detractors up.
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You can&#39;t fool teammates. Frauds and poseurs are sniffed out easily when 25 men spend seven months together. And you can&#39;t find any teammate who did not like Ken Caminiti.
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Sorry to ruin any beliefs you diehards may hold, but it appears true Yankees are made, after all, not born. Take Jon Lieber. He did not develop with the heritage in his blood.
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Because of the absolute glut of media outlets now in existence, especially in the realm of sports, there is a tendency to get carried away (to put it mildly) by what is happening in the here-and-now.
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Statistics in sport often tell only half  the story.
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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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HOUSTON -- Marat Safin, the mad Russian, may be a one-man demolition derby with tennis racket, Lleyton Hewitt a furious in-your-face adversary, Roger Federer a light-fingered pickpocket in short pants, and Andy Roddick a youth impersonating a thunderbolt. But these strong-willed contenders in this week's elite shootout called the Masters Cup aren't up to the theatrical standards of a guy ...
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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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Funny thing about pro sports. One team&#39;s mess is another team&#39;s messiah. In Toronto last week, the Vince Carter era came to a close, and not a minute too soon.
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There&#39;s a common misconception in the world of sports often voiced by beer-toting fans as if it were defensible in a court of law.
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&#39;Remove Miller from the scorecard and he still lives. That can be said of few cricketers.&quot;. That quote from Keith Miller&#39;s biographer Mihir Bose helps explain why the death Monday of a cricketer who played