[TS] Sports of The Times: Entertainers in Sports Grappling With Reality
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It is increasingly impossible for any Beltway inhabitant to marginalize W.W.E. as a farce when farce is braided with sports in so many ways.
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Successful athletes don&#39;t make the team because of their mediation skills. They are bullies with a purpose. If sportsman-like conduct isn&#39;t called forth during high testosterone moments, all is typically lost.
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Reports of substance abuse by top competitors in the baseball and cycling worlds remind us once again that it is important to keep athletic heroics in their proper perspective.
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No more post game blather on-air talent like 'Anchordude' and 'Sideline Blondie'
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The past weeks of steroids, on-field brawls and questionable of NFL marketing have led some to ask: what are sports degenerating into?
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The intense motivations of a bizarre NBA superstar
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Statistics in sport often tell only half  the story.
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Hometown fans are often more tolerant of an athlete whose alleged behavior on or off the field has drawn the ire of others.
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The rage over competitions like âDancing With the Starsâ and âAmerican Idolâ isnât a rationalized phase but a social shift that, in part, reflects a quantifiable disillusionment with mainstream sports.
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Are black athletes wasting their considerable wealth? Sportswriter William C. Rhoden thinks so.
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One of the best events in sports is happening this weekend, but I&#39;d be surprised if many of you know about it because I&#39;m not talking about a marquee college football matchup or the Yankees-Red Sox series.
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Last week&#39;s basketball brawl in Detroit, triggered by an on-court fight that spilled into the stands when a fan tossed a drink, has set the sports world buzzing.
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The sports world is giving New Yorkers more than their usual quotient of agita recently.
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Baseball players and other athletes use steroids for one reason -- they work.
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At least the "Bad Boys" kept their shenanigans on the court when they were wreaking havoc in the NBA. Nowadays there are enough mug shots out there to spawn a new trading card industry. Players are doing and saying things that defy common sense, annoying fans with their high-priced whines. Wins seem to rank only slightly ahead of endorsement opportunities and monster contracts, and those "knuckleheads" Karl Malone once dissed haven't gotten a clue yet.
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The sporting world is reeling, and rightly so, over a series of newspaper stories and athlete confessions about steroids, the tempting fuel for athletic success.
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Try to forget the basketball brawl and this year's other disturbing moments in sports. It's time to say thanks to some of the people who have made sports a better place.