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NBA Draft 2013 grades and results: Your complete NBA Draft guide
Get caught up on everything that happened in the first round of the 2013 NBA Draft with SB Nation's NBA Draft guide, presented by State Farm.NBA Draft 2013 grades and resultsYour complete NBA Draft...
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The Ringers: One night at a beer pong "Brodeo," where 20-somethings navigate...
During the day, Braza Dancante Brazilian Steakhouse is a pleasant enough place. It's in the middle of a massive outdoor shopping center right off the highway in Allen, Texas, one of the sprawling...
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Brooklyn's field of broken dreams: Former professional ballplayers find...
From the first time you ever take the field, even as ground balls bounce off your chest and you swing and miss at pitch after pitch, the coaches always tell you that baseball is a game of failure. Even...
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The only one: After being drafted No. 4 overall, Nashville defenseman Seth...
The media horde gained in strength and size by the minute, a collection of anxious reporters armed with iPhones, notebooks, cameras and microphones, all eager to get something, anything, out of an...
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The ultimate Frisbee wars: As the sport continues to grow rapidly and gain...
The good news is there’s not a Birkenstock in sight. No nose rings, dreadlocks, patchouli, or hacky sacks, either. And definitely no bandanna-wearing dogs.Nothing the common person associates with...
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Enfield adventures: A taste of the Tottenham Hotspur academy
"We'll start with the beep test, and then there'll be a two-mile run."It took me less than 30 seconds of taking to the pitch at Enfield to realise that I had absolutely no business being there. Not...
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Saving grace: After a gruesome murder, a man turns to his friends in the...
It was early morning in Drake Bay, a coastal, tourist town in the wildest jungle of Costa Rica, and a crescent moon still hung in the sky. In the trees, millions of cicadas rattled, and fringe-lipped...
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Robert Griffin III gets up
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Transition game: After decades of hiding painful childhood memories, former...
To watch Kenny Anderson play, when it was among the most important things in my life, meant parking at Giants Stadium, climbing a long flight of stairs along with a few thousand other fans -- many of...
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Elegy of a race car driver: The good times, hard life, and shocking death of...
Sometime after 10:30 on a Thursday morning in May, after he'd had his cup of coffee, Dick Trickle snuck out of the house. His wife didn't see him go. He eased his 20-year-old Ford pickup out on the...
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Alex Rodriguez, performance artist
It's not Alex Rodriguez's job to seem or be human, which is a good thing for him, because he would not be very good at his job if it were. It has in most respects been Rodriguez's job to be as...
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Camp Never Land: A week at action sports finishing school, where big dreams...
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”—J.M. Barrie, author of Peter PanIt is Sunday evening just past suppertime, and Clay Kreiner, a 16-year-old skateboarder who will spend the duration of...
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Clint Dempsey moves forward: How his move to the Seattle Sounders affects...
"MLS was born the bastard child of self-loathing and self-doubt. We are apologetic to a fault when it comes to our league. The self-loathing is legendary and in many ways a hindrance. But it's borne of...
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Death of a ballplayer: Billy Dillon was about to sign a contract with the...
Take me to the mission,to the mission, to the placewhere it’s safeWilliam Michael Dillon, “The Mission” from Black Robes and LawyersPart 1: Billy Dillon's Last Normal DayWilliam Dillon watched moonlit...
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Keep Calm and Don't Breathe: The country's only high school underwater hockey...
The start of the National Underwater Hockey tournament has not gone exactly as planned for Cincinnati's Roger Bacon High School.On Friday, the first day of the round-robin competition, the team lost...
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The rise of roller derby: No longer WWE on wheels, the rapid growth of...
It's common to be wary about roller derby when approaching your first bout. There's an organic, but unhealthy cynicism toward the ability of high-level athletic competition being grown in a warehouse...
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Gridiron Olympians: Many former Olympians have tried (and mostly failed) to...
It’s Week 1 of the 2013 NFL season, and the New England Patriots have made their way west to Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y., to take on the Bills. The snow and cold have yet to fall on the...
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Utility, pleasure and goodness: What one writer learned about classical...
On a perfect night for September baseball at Washington Nationals Park last year, as his band played "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" toward the end of his I'm-still-as-manic-as-George-Brett-used-to-be show,...
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Two carries, six yards: When the Chargers acquired former No. 1 pick Ricky...
When the trade was consummated, Ricky Bell smiled.He smiled. And smiled. And smiled. And smiled. And smiled. He smiled toward friends. He smiled toward relatives. He smiled toward old teammates and new...
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Haunted by stupidity: From the moment he was drafted, Donovan McNabb has been...
Up until April 17th, 1999, by comparison, Donovan McNabb's life doesn't seem to have been all that stupid. His family endured racially-motivated vandalism while living in an all-white Chicago...
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