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In Virginia, Sepp Shirey is a dedicated member of the Atlee High football team, putting in his work though it requires more effort because of cerebral palsy. Read more →
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It’s really the simple marriage proposals that are the most beautiful. Like Carlos Correa’s. Nothing fancy. Step One: Win the World Series with the Houston Astros. Step Two: Work out a plan with Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports to interview you on national TV. Step Three: Propose. Read more →
Papa John’s, the official pizza joint of the National Football League, reported this morning that same-store sales increased only 1 percent, while analysts expected it to increase 1.3 percent. Apparently, .3 percent is the toll that the NFL player protest is having on the company. Read more →
Gophers men’s basketball coach Richard Pitino doesn’t want to know what you think about him or his team during the season. So his Twitter account is going dark until March. Read more →
There are really only two ways to enjoy the World Series. One is to actually buy a ticket and be at the game. The other is to to work the third shift somewhere and watch it on TV.
Once again last night — or was it this morning? — the game ended with late action in a 13-to-12 Houston victory over the Dodgers.
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The rules are the rules and it doesn’t matter if Emily Nash, 16, of Lunenburg, Ma., beat all the boys by four strokes in a high school golf tournament. She doesn’t get the trophy for winning the tournament, nor the right to advance to a state tournament for winning the tournament she won, but didn’t. Read more →
There was a moment last night when baseball fans watching the World Series were reminded that baseball stadiums are basically studios for a TV production. What you see isn’t what’s really there. Read more →
The Los Angeles Dodgers are in the World Series for the first time in 29 years and, apparently, a lot of their fans and players are still living in the ’80s, when ‘she probably throws like a girl’ was a thing. Read more →
Kids are being forced to give up multiple sports to concentrate on a single sport all year. They’re sent off to ‘camps’ to be better at their chosen or appointed sport, all the better to make the team. That’s not Linaes Whiting’s thing.
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Andrew Wiggins hit the last-second shot after the Oklahoma City Thunder tied the game with a few seconds to go, an invitation for the Timberewolves of years past to pack it in. Read more →
It was all party last night for Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who beat the Chicago Cubs for the National League pennant and a trip to the World Series sponsored by Who Really Cares Anyway? [tm] Read more →
Fired Maine high school football coach Duane Greaton says he wants to tell his side of the story and we’re all ears, waiting to find out why the defensive unit of the Gray-New Gloucester football team was told to yell ‘who’s your daddy?’ every time they got to the quarterback for Yarmouth High School.
The quarterback has two mothers. Read more →
A New York Mets fan, ‘thumbs down guy’ couldn’t possibly have known he’d be famous thanks to his expressed displeasure about a New York Yankee homerun hit in his team’s stadium — Citi Field — in September. Read more →
Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers quarterback, is one of Wisconsin’s economic engines.
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John Manuel, who has been editor-in-chief and writing scouting reports and report cards for Baseball America for two decades , announced today that he’s been hired by the Minnesota Twins. Read more →