Sports of The Times: A Crowd Is Present; Accountability Is Not
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At the Garden, no apologies , no accountability, and no wonder another Knicks season is dying along with the calendar year.
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A professional athlete sidelined by an injury might as well be a dead man. Harsh, but true. If you are too hurt to play, you might as well stay home. Some teammates don't even want to look at you. Reminds them of their own vulnerability. In a big league locker room, no one wants to talk about ...
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There's an easy way to separate the winners from the losers. But don't expect the media to help you find it.
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In most sports, there are athletes built for the long haul, and those who dazzle in quick, mercurial bursts. Track and field has distance specialists and sprinters. Baseball has starting pitchers, setup men, and closers. Based on anecdotal evidence collected from 40-odd years immersed in sports literature, I suspect sportswriters fall into roughly the same categories. Like the starting pitcher who is awkwardly relegated to the bullpen, some writers aren't a great fit for every project. Lars Anderson, author of "Carlisle vs. Army," is a case in point.
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When an analyst or play-by-play man does not take a stand against bad behavior by an athlete, coach or manager, he is endorsing it.
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., Jan. 4 - Some players seem destined to make a statement in big games, and some seem to shy from the moment.
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How odd that a major-market professional sports team blitzing relentlessly toward victory went almost unnoticed.
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Some athletes are predisposed, genetically hard-wired, to draw attention, one way or another.
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The party had begun, and no one seemed to want it to end: not the players, not the fans.
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SOMETIMES home-team fans become so caught up in the crisis of the week that they lose track of the big picture of a game or season.
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Running the country is no game. It just sounds like one sometimes. In the Bush White House, sports are a metaphor for life. Better keep up if you want to play.
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The Supreme Court ruling, however, may not be the last word on the issue of spectator conduct.
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One of the longest-running curiosities in sports is why fans in Atlanta don&#39;t come out to professional sports events. And many fans who showed up at Philips Arena last night
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It&#39;s hard to decide whether this fixture is a quaint anachronism, a free-flowing tribute to the game&#39;s glorious, money-free past or naked commercial opportunism.
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Hype from the media, fans, players and coaches can make a college football game seem like a life-or-death situation. Not at the service academies.
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It is often said, mostly by broadcasters who have more time to fill than salient details, that the most important moment in a baseball game can come at any time.
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But this does not necessarily mean that concerns that the popularity of English football's top division may have peaked are unfounded.