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Ghosts of North Wilkesboro
One place gave us NASCAR, moonshine and Junior Johnson. So what happened after they all left?Part I.DEANThis one started, like they usually did, with a tip. The law had hauled some fella in, and he...
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Sunday Shootaround: Rudy Gobert is revolutionizing the Utah Jazz
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The Rocket Richard Riot
“No one can know when the anger of men, whipped indefinitely, becomes sculpted into political revenge. And more, it is not just a matter of hockey.” —Quebec journalist André LaurendeauMaurice...
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Sunday Shootaround: The Grizzlies' time is now
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Countdown to March: Life and Death with a Small Town Team
A scrawny kid in a steamy Midwestern gym, the kind of old barn where the rims are soft and the floor is pocked with dead spots. His whole hometown seems to swell the stands behind the bench — his...
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Take These Broken Wings
Delvin McMillian lost both hands and feet at the age of 21. But the hardest thing he has ever done was fight for a spot on the U.S. Paralympic Wheelchair Rugby National TeamOne day, he decided, one day...
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Sunday Shootaround: No one can stop the Warriors
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The Bill Belichick Offseason Simulator
This must be emphasized from the outset: The Bill Belichick Offseason Simulator is a tool, and not a toy. It does not exist to amuse you. It is meant to train prospective football coaches in the art...
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A Body's Worth: Boxer Andrae Carthron takes his last punch
The short boxer stalked forward with the slow reflexes of a drunk, wobbling in half steps with his hands too low. Each time he ducked punches he sacrificed balance, spreading his feet too wide, then...
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SB Nation Reviews: Barry Bonds
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Sunday Shootaround: The NBA's Eastern playoff race is a compelling trainwreck
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11 outrageous ballpark foods that might kill you this season
At least you'll die happy Twitter Fan v. Food BurgerTampa Bay RaysA four pound burger with two eight 8-ounce patties and eight slices of cheese. Oh, and 32 slices of bacon. It's called Fan vs. Food as...
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When in Roma …
Roma, March 26, 2014 — The room is in Rome’s city hall, located in a Renaissance palace that sits on ancient ruins and overlooks Michelangelo’s Piazza del Campidoglio. Statuary lines the walls. The...
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Sunday Shootaround: In the NBA, the stars make the system
☰The ListICYMISay WhatVine Of The WeekgoogleplusfacebooktwitterupThe Star SystemPaul FlanneryThe most important moment of the NBA season occurred last July when LeBron James announced that he was...
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The Ghosts I Run With: Surviving childhood cancer is a race that never ends
“Creech.”The name escaped my lips somewhere in the third mile of a five-mile run. It was a name I had been trying to think of, off-and-on, for the better part of a decade, the last name of my nurse...
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The Remaking of Coss Marte: A drug kingpin turned fitness guru becomes human
Late February 2015Coss Marte, 29, is going to get his hair cut by the man who helped him run a drug empire. He’s walking south on Forsyth Street, on the edge of New York’s Lower East Side, on the...
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The rise of Mookie Betts: How one of baseball's biggest surprises is no...
Right behind the entrance door to the Red Sox clubhouse, Mookie Betts sat slumped in his chair last August during his second stint in the major leagues. Betts’ locker fell in the middle of a row...
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NBA Y2K: Ten Years to Midnight
Ten Years to MidnightAside from user-created draft classes, everything that follows documents a completely-untouched NBA 2K15 simulation. All draft selections, roster decisions, and transactions of any...
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Mayweather vs. Pacquiao: The complete timeline for the fight of the century
For over five years now, the world has waited. On May 2, the wait finally ends. Floyd Mayweather will face Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, and when all is said and done, only...
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NFL daft: A partial history of draft day's terrible decisions and total failures
Poor NFL. (This is the first time in history that those two words have sat next to one another.)In the NFL Draft, the NFL can't really win. If it picks a great player early on, it's an obvious move...
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