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Sunday Shootaround: The Knicks, a disaster in 3 acts
☰OvertimeViewers GuideThe ListICYMISay WhatThis Week In GIFsgoogleplusfacebooktwitterupThe Knicks: a disaster in 3 acts.Paul FlanneryAct I: Knicks locker room, pregameMetta World Peace was holding...
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2013 SB Nation All-America Team
☰QB/RBWR/TEO-lineD-lineLBDBSpecial TeamsMore awardsgoogleplusfacebooktwitterupWe like watching college football, from the kickoff of Sun Belt Tuesday to whenever the last Mountain West game ends, from...
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Qatar Chronicles: Part I, Destination everywhere
David Roth traveled to Qatar for a closer look at the World Cup's future home. Below is the first installment of his five-part series.★★★The defining thing about airports is that no one really wants to...
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Qatar Chronicles: Part II, Buying a masterpiece
David Roth traveled to Qatar for a closer look at the World Cup's future home. Below is the second installment of his five-part series. Previously: Part I, Destination everywhere.★★★On the first bleary...
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Sharing Derek Sheely: A helmet-to-helmet hit took the life of a 22-year-old...
Ken Sheely sits on a couch with a photo album on his lap. He flips the pages. His son, Derek, gets older with each turn. Smiling at the beach. At Disney World. At Gettysburg. There's even a picture of...
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Qatar Chronicles: Part III, Only for the rich
David Roth traveled to Qatar for a closer look at the World Cup's future home. Below is the third installment of his five-part series.Previously:Part I, Destination everywherePart II, Buying a...
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Qatar Chronicles: Part IV, They wanted it more
David Roth traveled to Qatar for a closer look at the World Cup's future home. Below is the fourth installment of his five-part series.Previously:Part I, Destination everywherePart II, Buying a...
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Qatar Chronicles: Part V, On their own terms
David Roth traveled to Qatar for a closer look at the World Cup's future home. Below is the final installment of his five-part series.Previously:Part I, Destination everywherePart II, Buying a...
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Sunday Shootaround: The Pacers meet Danny Granger again
☰OvertimeViewers GuideThe ListICYMISay WhatThis Week In GIFsgoogleplusfacebooktwitterupHello again, Danny GrangerPaul FlanneryINDIANAPOLIS -- When Danny Granger checked into the Pacers’ lineup late in...
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Modern Hate: Behind the scenes of four college football rivalries
by Steven GodfreyModern HateBehind the scenes of four college football rivalries.twitterfacebookgoogleplusThe Keg of Nails, where getting out is half the battleSometimes the death of a rivalry only...
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Fiction: The forgiveness of Lou Gehrig, 1931 and 1940: A Christmas story
Chapter 1You have to understand what kind of pressure I was under. No kid -- and at 23 I was still definitely a kid -- should have to be under that kind of stress. The day the Yankees called Jimmie and...
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Year in Longform 2013
The year in Longform13 of our favorite SB Nation features from ‘13The last shotMichael GraffEarl Badu hit one of the most famous shots in Maryland basketball history. Ten years later, he jumped off...
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The big 2014 Rose Bowl breakdown: Michigan State vs. Stanford
"There’s no such thing as carry-over. We’re not going to win games because we won last year."Stanford head coach David Shaw told me that in an interview last offseason. He gets excited talking about...
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The big 2014 Fiesta Bowl breakdown: UCF vs. Baylor
As a whole, the BCS did a decent job of choosing top teams for top bowl games. In terms of the F/+ rankings, the top five teams are all represented, as are six of the top seven and seven of the top...
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The big 2014 Sugar Bowl breakdown: Oklahoma vs. Alabama
[Game recap here: "Big Game Bob" and the Sooners pulled off the Sugar Bowl shocker!]The "Big Game Bob" moniker for Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops has lived a long life and served a couple of different...
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Serie A midterms: Asking the magic 8 ball what lies ahead
It's difficult to see what the future holds in Serie A over the second half of the season. Unless you have a magic predictive device.We're not quite halfway through the Serie A season -- only 17...
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The big 2014 Orange Bowl breakdown: Clemson vs. Ohio State
"College football is better when ___ is good."We see and hear it said a lot. Fill in your national power (or, perhaps, former power) here: USC, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Michigan, whoever. We take comfort in...
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The big 2014 BCS Championship Game breakdown: Florida State vs. Auburn
The day after Alabama's dominant win over Notre Dame in last year's BCS National Championship, Bovada released 2013 national title odds. Alabama was an obvious favorite at 5/1, and Oregon, Ohio State,...
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Wilderness women: Every year, women come from all over North America to prove...
I'm not sure why the film crew picked me out of the crowd. It could have been because I was the first contestant to sign up, walking into the dim bar at 11 a.m. sharp and putting down my $5, signing my...
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Hoosier hysteria: How the Pacers won back the heart of Indiana
The Pacers were angry. Two nights earlier, they had blown a fourth-quarter lead and lost in Miami against their nemesis. Two nights before that, they'd dropped a game at home against Detroit, which is...
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