Unexpectedly, Series Is Long on Games and Short on Drama
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As the Yankees cruise and the Red Sox wheeze to the finish line, this weekend's load of games is simply a lot of baseball in a short span.
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This wasn't a football game. It was a series of unfortunate events.
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This yearâs World Series was so full of odd, unscripted sights and moments that it sometimes seemed as if the laws of baseball probability had been temporarily suspended.
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Whether this season's meager collection of new plays is simply a quirk of scheduling or the beginning of a larger trend is uncertain.
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It's been a peculiar TV season. More than usual. This one so far has been a little of everything: good, bad, innovative, disappointing, surprising, and, ultimately, one giant learning experience for the people who make TV.  And that's one of the surprises right there.
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Last month's basketball riot in suburban Detroit was a disgrace, a shameful moment in the history of American sports -- and the most entertaining TV show of the year.
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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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Getting a life gets a lot more complicated in this sequel to the best-selling computer game in history.
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Gambling, and especially poker, has invaded almost every form of television. So it stands to reason that ESPN would develop a drama about cardplayers.
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Animation in the âSimpsonsâ era demands a breathless pace, varied characters and whirlwind visual invention. Nickelodeonâs âTakâ falls short in all three categories.
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Promoted as â âWide World of Sportsâ meets the Big Apple,â âStreet Gamesâ will traverse the five boroughs in 10 half-hour episodes that focus on rarely televised activities like handball and roller derby.
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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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As Saturday nightâs game against the Patriots showed, the Giantsâ inability to finish big games is a big issue as the playoffs arrive.
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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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90 mins: And so the curtain comes down on a match of very fine margins. Not an epic by any stretch of the imagination but both teams worked extremely hard but never really showed enough craft to open the opposition defence.
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At first glance, the new TV season looks less than heroic.
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The basketball schedule for the expanded Atlantic Coast Conference lacks some of the traditional series between long-standing rivals.