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Archive for February 21st, 2012
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
With the Academy Awards coming up this weekend, Moneyball is back in the headlines. So is the opening of spring training in Major League Baseball. It's an interesting juxtaposition given that the Athletics are expected to break camp with a pretty young team to send up against a pair of ...
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
The Phoenix Suns and Alvin Gentry are in a pretty tough spot. On the one hand, the Suns are trying to win games; their goal coming into the season was to be a playoff team and Gentry has to find a way to motivate his players to do just that. ...
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Thanks to a great late season run and a tremendous pitching staff, the Tampa Bay Rays snuck into the playoffs last year only to have that ride come to an end at the hands of the Texas Rangers. However, the future is bright in Tampa Bay. Despite playing in the ...
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Tim Wakefield has announced his retirement from the game of baseball after 19 seasons. The Red Sox rubber arm had a remarkable run given the nature of his specialty pitch: the knuckleball. This pitch can be virtually unhittable, and even harder for hitters to pick up when Wakefield's knuckleball was ...
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
It's quite a challenge to replace a legend at any big time college football institution, especially at Penn State University, where the king that was Joe Paterno coached for 46 years before being dethroned by an alleged child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant Jerry Sandusky. Throw in Paterno's passing, ...
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