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Nationally-ranked NY hoops team in hot water over ineligible player
Some schools will go to incredible lengths to beat their crosstown rival. For a nationally-ranked girls' basketball team in New York, that apparently meant using an ineligible player to ensure they got...
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Mike D’Antoni wants Knicks fans to quit booing Jared Jeffries
Jeremy Lin aside, the Knicks haven't given their fans much to cheer for this season. Their stars can't seem to work together, most of their role players are playing in the wrong roles or just aren't...
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Puck Previews: Capitals, Panthers in Southeast showdown; Winter Classic...
Here are your Puck Previews: Spotlighting the key games in NHL action, news and views as well as general frivolity. Make sure to stop back here for the nightly Three Stars when the games are finished....
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Reader feedback: Arguments continue over Carlos Condit-Nick Diaz decision
It's clear three days after the fact that the Carlos Condit's unanimous-decision win over Nick Diaz will go down as one of the most hotly debated fights in UFC history. Everyone has a take, as is clear...
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DeMarcus Cousins is playing like a star, if anyone notices
Now in his second NBA season, Sacramento Kings big man has gained more attention for his disagreements with team management than for his impressive skills as a basketball player. Cousins and Paul...
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Snow building up: Isles sign Frans Nielsen to 4-year deal, avoid free agency
Frans Nielsen of the New York Islanders finished sixth in the Selke voting last season (even with the New York area boycott over the Chris Botta issue); a considerable distance behind the top 5, but...
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Kentucky smothers Florida, cements itself as national title favorite
Syracuse has the stronger resume. Ohio State and North Carolina have more experience. Murray State is the lone unbeaten. But there can be little doubt after top-ranked Kentucky obliterated No. 8...
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Capitals’ Vokoun shuts out Panthers: ‘We don’t want to be a bubble team’
WASHINGTON, DC — Washington Capitals goalie Tomas Vokoun doesn't watch the standings. "I don't," he said. "For me it doesn't matter if I'm last or first, every game I do the same." Of course, there are...
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Dimitar Berbatov is…The Continental
Well hello there. I see you've caught me in your office, bearing the gift of my presence and my musky, Vin Diesel-like scent. ... Who am I? Judging by my decidedly unsexy lack of playing time, I...
View ArticleRangers’ game-tying goal waved off due to interference; was it the right...
For the first time in a calendar year, the New Jersey Devils won their 5th straight game, knocking off the New York Rangers 1-0 Tuesday. Martin Brodeur picked up the shutout, his first of the season...
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Tuesday’s Three Stars: Avs’ Jones pots two; Shutouts for all, even a guy who...
Lil' Jon cheats on the Thrashers/Jets franchise with the Montreal Canadiens. Not sure what he sees in Montreal, especially since it's clearly tough to find a diamond-encrusted goblet there. No. 1...
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George Brett lawsuit claims his company falsely advertises ion necklaces’...
Those ionic titanium chains and bracelets you see Major League Baseball players wearing, like the jewelry obscuring the neck of pitcher C.J. Wilson and others. Doesn't it all seem like a load of...
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Kim Kardashian, Kris Humphries autographed ball being auctioned by Twins
The Minnesota Twins found a way for their Community Fund to benefit from the 72-day marriage between NBA player Kris Humphries and famous person Kim Kardashian. The Twinkies announced they are...
View ArticleTony Stewart plays himself on Tim Allen’s new show
Hey, did you know Tim Allen had a new show? Yeah, me neither. But it's called "Last Man Standing," and it's apparently got enough juice to have landed one Tony Stewart for a cameo. Good for a chuckle,...
View ArticleThis is just weird: You can play golf as baby Tiger Woods
Behold the latest video for the Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 game, coming in March: Not quite sure what to make of this here, except to say that when you bill your game with "Relive Tiger's Legacy," you're...
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Stephen Thompson interview: ‘Wonderboy’ could shake up welterweight division
The welterweight division has been a rough place for pure strikers, but Stephen Thompson may have a chance to change that. With a decorated karate background, "Wonderboy" is looking to alter the way...
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Terrell Owens is still clinging to the NFL dream
When a 38-year-old wide receiver spends a full year out of the NFL and ends up with the Allen Wranglers of the Indoor Football League, he might want to start thinking about his NFL career in the past...
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Training Day: Learning the 40 with an Olympian
Up through the NFL draft, Shutdown Corner's Kristian Dyer will be training at TEST Sports Club in Martinsville, N.J., along with roughly 20 players. All of these athletes are prepping for the NFL...
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Craig Thompson is expanding the MWC with one eye on the Minnesota AD job
Craig Thompson will not be operating an eight-team football conference come 2013. Eight, he told the Denver Post, is not a workable number. "The Mountain West needs to change the numbers," Thompson...
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Photos of Michael Jordan’s letter of intent, recruiting letters
Michael Jordan idolized North Carolina State's David Thompson as a youth and grew up rooting for the Wolfpack, so it's a testament to North Carolina coach Dean Smith and his staff that they still...
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