Nicholson Deserves Place among the Game&#39;s Greats
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Bill Nicholson was the original ground-breaker. A list of his achievements during his 16 years in charge of Tottenham would read as a fitting epitaph for a man who changed the fortunes of the north London club.
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Legendary Tottenham Hotspur Football Club manager Bill Nicholson has died at the age of 85 after a lengthy illness. Nicholson is an iconic figure at White Hart Lane, making over 400 appearances as a player
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One of the marks of a great player is the ability to produce when it matters. This was England&#39;s most important one-day game of the season.
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Neil Mellor lived up to his burgeoning reputation with the winner for Liverpool in last night&#39;s dramatic 2-1 win over Arsenal.
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International teams, almost all of them, have many capable shooters -- especially from 3-point range. Get caught in a screen, leave them uncontested, be slow getting out, and inevitably they&#39;ll hit those shots.
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Vin Scully, if you haven&#39;t heard, has a tendency to go on a bit. It&#39;s more than a tendency, really. It&#39;s practically a trademark.
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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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he&#39;s the tallest, most solidly-built player in international cricket at the moment. The next thing that gets your attention
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Gary Sheffield was the Yankees&#39; best player last season, a runner-up for the Most Valuable Player award despite a separated left shoulder.
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It&#39;s not easy to compile a passer rating of 0.00. All the greats have tried. Most have failed. There was Atlanta&#39;s Kurt Kittner.
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Someday Dwight Howard is likely to be the Orlando Magic&#39;s go-to-guy. But for now Howard, the No. 1 overall pick in the June NBA draft, is the Magic&#39;s go-get-me guy.
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Rick Majerus is a basketball savant. Nobody questions that. He&#39;s a winner. Nobody questions that. He&#39;ll be a tremendous hire for Southern California.
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Kudos to Red Wings winger Brendan Shanahan for reaching into his own pocket last week to bring in a bunch of his pals for a hockey summit in Toronto. Finally, a member of the rank and file emerges as the conscience of the game, and at a time when the NHL product desperately needs propping up in the &quot;E&quot; (for ...
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Ruud van Nistelrooy&#39;s reward for the four-goal display that got Manchester United&#39;s Champions League campaign back on track was a suggestion from his manager that the Dutchman now deserved to be bracketed alongside Europe&#39;s all-time greats.
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Let&#39;s start with dispensing Player of the Week awards to the Olympic gold medal winners in singles, Justine Henin-Hardenne and Chile&#39;s Nicolas Massu.
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David Beckham lurches from one crisis to another. Michael Owen projects a squeaky clean image. The country which invented soccer should have no problem deciding who&#39;s the best choice to captain England&#39;s national team.
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The highlight of Johnny Davis&#39; ten seasons as an active player was his role on the Portland Trail Blazers &#39; 1977 championship.