Thursday Has Become the Dreaded Game Day
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When the N.F.L. added a weekly Thursday night game to this yearâs late-season schedule, it added more midweek stress to the coaching profession.
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NEW YORK -- Maybe 19 games going on 26 is too many. Maybe the familiarity that has brought contempt between the two combatants has also created boredom for those not in the two cities.
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A bunch of people think it&#39;s going to be a walkover, a blowout of mammoth proportions, a game during which the home team will be plucking students out of the stands to play by the third quarter.
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The fourth quarter of the Miami-Buffalo game Sunday sounded an alarm that Miami&#39;s defense is growing weary of carrying both ends of the stretcher.
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The National Hockey League is locking out its players starting Thursday, threatening to keep the sport off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season and perhaps beyond in an effort by management to gain massive change in the sport's economic structure.
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Can you believe this? For the first time since Week 2 we have a full slate of 16 games this weekend and not one of them involves two teams that I sincerely believe will go to the playoffs.
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The Chicago Cubs are cranky. The fans are restless. The baseball has been sloppy, the results discouraging, the trend alarming. Friday seemed a good day to look in on the National League wild card race.
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The day after elimination always brings strange vibes. It&#39;s too soon to let go of the rigorous season that fell short but not too early to start thinking about next year&#39;s team.
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It might be too early to say the Clemson football season has reached a crisis mode, but then again ... there is that schedule to contend with.
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The Giants who endured the misery of the 2003 season still wince whenever last year is mentioned. They remember that they didn&#39;t get their fourth win until the eighth game of that season.
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Fearing monsoon conditions for yesterday's game against Dartmouth, Harvard coach Tim Murphy dunked the team's footballs in water before each play in Thursday's practice, which "made it pretty miserable," as he put it, for his quarterbacks and receivers.
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It will hurt more next year if it happens because it will be a league game. But there was no disguising the frustration and anger in the Boston College locker room following yesterday's 17-14 loss to Wake Forest.
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Just another confusing day in the world of the stumbling bumbling Buffalo Bills, who can&#39;t even pass the torch between running backs without fumbling the darn thing.
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A banner week that began with victories against Detroit, Washington and the Nets â all without the injured Stephon Marbury â turned sour Friday night.
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The defensive line that started the season for the New York Giants is close to being wiped out.
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In sports, as in investing, the pressure is on. We suggest a coping strategy.
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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.