Bird, Jackson just two pieces of puzzle
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In 2000, the Seattle Storm began play in the WNBA. Lauren Jackson was busy that summer playing for Australia in the Summer Olympics in her native country.
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or at least make it look that way - the Knicks did so last night at Madison Square Garden. Indeed, it took them only one
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Jalen Rose, one of only two Knicks to have played in the N.B.A. finals, is a tad dumbfounded at the preception that he might not have a roll on the Knicks.
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This N.F.C. championship game was about whether the Falcons' Michael Vick, with his scrambling ways, could tie the Eagles in knots. He could not.
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Statistics in sport often tell only half  the story.
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Everyone knew Sunday&#39;s game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Baltimore Ravens was going to be a defensive struggle, but very quietly each team had designs on a big offensive day.
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After a course record on Thursday, the six-time tour winner manages just two birdies. Jonathan Byrd&#39;s second-straight round of 66 is good for a share of the lead.
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Officials investigating the deadly Minneapolis bridge collapse are looking at an unlikely culprit: pigeons.
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They could have gone down as one of the NBA&#39;s most successful duos. If only they could have learned to get along. Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O&#39;Neal, two of the NBA&#39;s greatest players who ultimately couldn&#39;t
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Phil Jackson wasn't particularly concerned with his personal losing streak. He was far more frustrated by the way the Lakers are playing.
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Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson are in trouble with the NBA again. The central figures in the brawl at the Palace of Auburn Hills were each suspended without pay by the league on Saturday for the first seven games of next season because of their most recent legal problems.
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Sunday's matchup between the Jets and the Rams was not the best of games for Dick Enberg or Dan Dierdorf, CBS's No. 2 team.
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Patriots fans have been waiting a long time to see what wide receiver Chad Jackson can do. Sidelined since training camp with a slow-healing hamstring, Jackson had as many NFL catches as your typical couch-potato football fanatic -- zero -- entering yesterday's game against the New York Jets.
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About the only intrigue involved in U.S. Open matches played Thursday by Maria Sharapova and Lindsay Davenport was just how lopsided the final results would be.
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If ever there was a case of two people who didn&#39;t know their left feet from their right, two people who didn&#39;t know how good they had it on the basketball court, two people who, in the final analysis, got exactly what they deserved, it&#39;s the strange case
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OAKLAND -- -- The essential difference between the A&#39;s and the Anaheim Angels, so narrow yet so pronounced, rang loud and clear Saturday, distilled to a single inning.
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For several weeks, the St. Louis Rams' slide was enough to silence even their unofficial spokesman. Virtually every week, reporters crowd Tyoka Jackson's locker. Jackson, a captain and defensive end who's been with the Rams four seasons, is adept at breaking down the game to its essentials and analyzing an opponent's strengths and weaknesses.