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The Art of offense: Has Baylor birthed college football's most unstoppable...
Listening to defensive coaches discuss the outbreak of Bear maulings west of the Mississippi, you get the sense that something awful is happening to the men of their profession."You have to think...
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SB Nation's 2013 MLB awards
☰AL Best PlayerNL Best PlayerAL Best PitcherNL Best PitcherAL Best RookieNL Best RookiegoogleplusfacebooktwitterupEach year, SB Nation polls its network of team bloggers in a referendum on the major...
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Sunday Shootaround: Anthony Davis is already here
☰OvertimeViewers GuideThe ListICYMISay WhatThis Week In GIFsgoogleplusfacebooktwitterupRaising eyebrowsPaul FlanneryAsk anyone around the league what has caught their eye in the first week of the...
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Ra’Shede’s Road: The improbable path that took Ra’Shede Hageman from foster...
He was born on fourth-and-long. Mom drank when she was pregnant with him. Traded sex for drugs while he was in diapers. State authorities dragged him out of a crack house closet when he was 4 years...
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Hope on the high plains: Welcome to Wyoming, where one of Division I...
It's a 1976 Chinook. Bryan Stevens bought it from his parents, who bought it from his grandparents. There were countless camping trips in the Chinook, the interior of which still sports a...
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Staying grounded: Chiefs vs. Broncos will hinge on the running game
Every football season has a handful of games that are billed as "the biggest regular season game of the year" in the week leading up to kickoff. So far this year, the San Francisco at Seattle Sunday...
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Sunday Shootaround: The impossibility of playing to lose in the NBA
☰OvertimeViewers GuideThe ListICYMISay WhatThis Week In GIFsgoogleplusfacebooktwitterupWhere tank is a four-letter wordPaul FlanneryArron Afflalo hates to lose. The very thought consumes him. It...
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Requiem for a welterweight: Manny Pacquiao may be broke, but is he broken, too?
You’re Joe Louis, aged thirty-seven, a main-event heavyweight. You were the greatest champion of your time. But you’re trapped by the fight racket which you conquered.”— Jimmy CannonAfter eight...
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Pay to play: Why we gladly give franchises our money for new sporting venues,...
Professional sports and incredible sums of money are, at this point, inextricably intertwined. At the highest levels, franchise values rival small nation GDPs. The NBA is a concern of $4 billion in...
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Sunday Shootaround: Dawn of the Paul George era
☰OvertimeViewers GuideThe ListICYMISay WhatThis Week In GIFsgoogleplusfacebooktwitterupDawn of the Paul George eraPaul FlanneryPaul George started laughing before the question was even finished. Like...
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Stillwater on ice: Oklahoma State, Baylor and the coldest of Westerns
The Cowboys in white hats defended their merciless turf against the men from Waco, just as they've done since 1939, and the Big 12's food chain remains intact.1. On the way into Stillwater, Oklahoma...
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Long live the read option: The most talked about offensive scheme of 2012 is...
Is the read option still a thing, or what?:The emergence of the read option at the NFL level was one of the biggest stories of the 2012 season. A concept appropriated from college playbooks became an...
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2013 SB Nation Holiday Gift Guide
sponsored by o the turkey and stuffing has been consumed, the tree and ornaments at least thought about, and the Lions game yelled at. Now begins the three-week scramble to figure out what the heck...
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Anatomy of perfection: How long can Nick Newell stay undefeated in the cage,...
It was an unseasonably warm night in Nashville when Nick Newell stepped into the cage last December to fight for his first championship belt. At stake was the 155-pound lightweight strap in the Xtreme...
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SB Nation’s 2014 World Cup Draw Preview
The World Cup draw takes place on Friday and SB Nation is here to get you ready with everything you need to know about the 32 qualified teams.☰The SeedsAsia, North and Central AmericaEuropeAfrica and...
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Sunday Shootaround: Brad Stevens' Celtics work only toward the future
☰OvertimeViewers GuideThe ListICYMISay WhatThis Week In GIFsgoogleplusfacebooktwitterupCeltics' new coach looking beyond this seasonPaul FlanneryThe Celtics are 9-12, which is neither good nor bad. It...
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College Football Bowl Schedule 2013-2014
Saturday, December 21st2 p.m.: Gildan New Mexico BowlColorado State vs Washington StateMWC 4 vs. Pac-12 7ExpertPickJason KirkSpencer HallBill ConnellyDan RubensteinBud ElliottLuke Zimmermann3:30 p.m.:...
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The only game in town: 8-man football is a way of life in Eastern Montana,...
On a recent Saturday afternoon, 12 miles from the Canadian border, the hometown Scobey Spartans prepared to kick off to the Wibaux Longhorns in an 8-man high school football game. The Spartans were 0-6...
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They're playing basketball: An oral history of Kurtis Blow's 'Basketball' on...
The intersection of hip-hop and basketball has been well-documented. Rappers want to be ballers, ballers want to be rappers, and every MC worth his salt has name-checked the NBA. From the early hip-hop...
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This train: When two unlikely teams met in the SEC Championship, we saw a...
"This train is bound for _____." The MARTA train splits Atlanta into four quadrants and greets you with this introduction every time you board. It is both a statement of fact and a nod to Atlanta's -...
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