Sports of The Times: Setting Records Is Not the Priority for Toomer
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Amani Toomer, a forever Giant, playing in his 12th pro season, caught a franchise-record 49th career touchdown Sunday.
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Amani Toomer, a forever Giant, playing in his 12th pro season, caught a a franchise-record 49th career touchdown Sunday.
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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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Statistics do not show, conclusively, why the United States no longer dominates menâs professional tennis, but there is some tantalizing evidence to consider.
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Enough of Peyton Manning making history. Now he'll have to find a way to defy it. Never mind Manning's record-shattering season, the new rules favoring receivers or the Colts' apparent head of steam going into their playoff rematch with New England. Because when the Patriots are across the line, history is decidedly against the NFL's Most Valuable Player.
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One of the most influential baseball minds of the last 40 years contends that measures used to demonstrate the baseball wide effects of performance-enhancing drugs are the wrong place to look.
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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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Major League Baseball has made the distinction of having the American League's best record matter this year.
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He is fine. James Driscoll wants people to know that up front. The play hasn't been as sharp as he'd like, certainly not up to his standards, and he knows there's a local following that is curious, but a lot of it has to do with this game called golf.
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Cycling and track and field yanked their biggest stars off the marquee in a matter of days after they were implicated in doping cases. Now that those sports have turned summer's center stage back over to baseball, can fans still seething over the use of performance-enhancers expect the same kind of accountability?
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Bee Staff Writer. SANTA CLARA - Once upon a time this season, the 49ers and Buffalo Bills found themselves with 1-5 records. Since then, the Bills have turned into a swan.
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It's a relatively recent story, and a familiar one. The Red Sox had two big sluggers in the middle of their lineup -- one a lefthanded hitter, the other a righty, both .300 hitters, one a former MVP, one who would soon be named one. They were the linchpins of a Sox team that had high hopes of playing deep ...
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Playing catch-up? Late starters can still make a million.
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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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FOXBOROUGH -- History never felt quite this ho-hum. For weeks, cautious Patriots players downplayed their run at the record book, insisting their systematic construction of a winning streak dating back to October of 2003 was of little or no consequence. We were chastised for forecasting the possibilities and discouraged from attaching significance to a milestone that would not produce a ...
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THERE WILL be an asterisk next to Barry Bonds&#39; home-run records. It may not appear in Major League Baseball&#39;s official archives, but it will be ingrained in the public mind.
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Despite the Mitchell report, which some say deals a blow to baseballâs integrity, fans donât appear to be boycotting the sport. In fact, quite the opposite.