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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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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Some like to compete, but group training isn't for everyone.
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Baseball players may not be the only animals looking to gain an advantage by using steroids.
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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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Bush league or smart play? Sometimes the answer depends on the individual involved. It almost always depends on which team you like.
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Winning is neither everything nor the only thing in soccer. Teams often play for a certain result. During the regular season, a tie away from home can be rewarding. In Major League Soccer's playoffs, goal differential will likely determine who advances in two-game series.
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With a posted total of 42 or higher a the home team is off of a home win the road team scored 24 or more points their last game and the road team played a close gameâeither lost by five or less or won by 10 or less, itâs gone under 27-5.
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League championship games can mean big bucks but may not always be risks worth taking as they can serve as landmines to dodge on the way to the BCS title game.
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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.
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There is an art to picking a team during qualifying, when a coach must take into account fitness, injuries, fatigue, suspensions and commitments to professional clubs.
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In the battle between Major League Soccer and the national teams of several players over the coming weeks, there will be likely few winners.
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By now, the Heat should be accustomed to opponents sending out small lineups and multiple post defenders to counter its Shaquille O&#39;Neal-centered offense.
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Statistics in sport often tell only half  the story.
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Soccer is a sport with a field 80 yards wide by 120 yards long, and 22 players running for 90 minutes. Often times the only players that stand out are the ones that put up &#39;big&#39; numbers, scoring goals and setting up others.
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Expectations come with a noose. In a sport where the need to live one day at a time is always reinforced, not living up to long-range projections often tightens that noose.
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New data gives a peek into how the players are posed to do.