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The 8,235th Opinion You’ll Read on Tim Tebow
Rarely, if ever, have we seen a single athlete — scratch that — a single person captivate an entire country with such a polarizing effect as Tim Tebow. There are two stances on Tebow, love and hate. There doesn’t seem to be an indifferent middle ground with him. Why? Probably because what he’s doing in the NFL has never been seen before...
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December 16, 2011
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December 16, 2011
Discuss
Fantasy Football is Destroying NFL Fandom
This marks my thirteenth year partaking in the hair-pulling, tv-screaming, keyboard-smashing event that is fantasy sports. Over the span of those thirteen years, I’ve developed a few rules for myself; some come out of superstition while others out of loyalties to certain players. I always draft Adam Dunn, for one (even though he really burned me this year). ...
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September 19, 2011
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September 19, 2011
ESPN’s QBR With An Instant Backfire In Week One
Maybe you’ve heard about the new statistic that ESPN has wheeled out for the NFL season called QBR. It’s ESPN’s advanced answer to the QB rating statistic that we’ve used for years to judge quarterbacks on efficiency and success. ESPN couldn’t stand pat with that, no sir. Not in an age of advanced metrics. So naturally, to upstage...
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September 13, 2011
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September 13, 2011
College Football is Almost Here
The college football season officially starts this Thursday and, in honor of that, I figured I’d post a nice little montage video that ESPN put together a few years back. Let’s get this season underway.
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August 29, 2011
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August 29, 2011
Mark Schlereth Dials Up Some Wins for Carolina in 2011
New head coach Ron Rivera is going to have a hell of a task rebuilding the National Football League’s worst team in 2011. But let me tell you, he’s got someone SPECIAL in first round pick Cam Newton. This guy has ALL THE TOOLS to make ALL THE THROWS in the National Football League. Let me give you a run down of a few things that I’m going to be...
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August 18, 2011
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August 18, 2011
Sports Science: The Miami Hurricanes Scandal
Welcome to Sports Science, I’m host John Brenkus. Today we’re going to take a look at the scandal surrounding the Miami Hurricanes football team and how it actually stacks up with scandals of all time. We’re also going to actually diagnose how much influence Nevin Shapiro actually had on the actual football team.
To find out just how much influence Mr...
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August 17, 2011
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August 17, 2011
Maurice Jones-Drew Approaches Twitter the Right Way
Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew hardly backed down from the comments he made about Bears quarterback Jay Cutler not wanting to come back into last years NFC Championship game. MJD called Cutler a “quitter” during the game on Twitter, a 140 character blast that immediately drew all sorts of attention. And when he was recently asked about apologizing...
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August 10, 2011
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August 10, 2011
Drawing a Line in the Mud
Today we have guest writer Francisco’s latest contribution about the debacle at Soldier Field. I’m glad more people are speaking up about this; how well worn is the adage ”it’s just Chicago! It’s frigid! The frozen tundra, that’s how it is!” Give me a break, seriously. Anyways, enjoy it!
Yay, football...
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August 09, 2011
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August 09, 2011
The Yankees are Playing Boston? Nap Time
In a society that has come to crave fast paced hard hitting action, baseball serves as the perfect background noise for an evening nap. Take the predictability of last night’s Yankees-Red Sox tilt for example. Whenever these two meet, count on it being nationally televised and count on it taking at least four hours to play out. Sure enough, two hours into...
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August 08, 2011
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August 08, 2011
Busted!
Don’t worry Bud Selig, we took care of the investigation for you. Alex Rodriguez was taking the house for all it was worth in those illegal poker games. What a sly dog.
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August 04, 2011
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August 04, 2011
84′s Legacy
Randy Moss decided to hang it up on Monday, releasing a statement that at the age of 34 he’s about done with football. A lot can be insinuated from this statement given that, just a few weeks prior, reports had come out that Moss was in the best shape of his life. As free agency unfolded, teams like the Jets went for a guy who had been in prison for two years instead...
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August 03, 2011
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August 03, 2011
Bob Bradley Is Gone! Flares, Flares, Everywhere!
Time to go shoot off flares and do all sorts of other riotous activities associated with soccer. Bob Bradley has been officially relieved of his duties as the U.S. Mens soccer coach. I think I speak on behalf of most soccer fans in the United States when I say thank God.
Say what you will about the United States “miracle” run in the World Cup where they, so...
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July 28, 2011
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July 28, 2011
Vikings Punter Chris Kluwe Loves Us
A few weeks ago we ran a story about possible jobs that NFL players would be undertaking during the lockout. Apparently Vikings punter Chris Kluwe found our article, and he loved our idea. He loved it so much that he changed his twitter background to the picture of him playing Warcraft that we posted. Thanks for giving the site some love, Chris! Best of luck...
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July 28, 2011
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July 28, 2011
What Are The White Sox Doing?
It seems like GM Kenny Williams plays a flip-flop game every year come deadline time. Are the White Sox buyers or sellers? If you recall two years ago they went out and added guys such as Alex Rios and Jake Peavy when it didn’t seem like they had a considerable chance at a playoff run. This year, the White Sox currently sit a mere three and a half games out...
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July 27, 2011
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July 27, 2011
Sorting Out This Free Agency Mess
With the resolution of the lockout and the new CBA in place, it’s time for three months of NFL business to be conducted in one week as training camps set to open. One of the biggest parts of the NFL off-season is the free agency period, which will open up tomorrow although teams won’t be able to sign players until Friday. Many of these guys already have a...
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July 26, 2011
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July 26, 2011
What Is Jim Thome’s Legacy?
Twins first baseman designated hitter Jim Thome is a mere four home runs away from one of the benchmark statistics in baseball; 600 home runs. There are only a handful of players in the history of the game who’ve reached 600, and as of late it seems more like an indicator of who was on steroids in the past decade instead of who was a premiere power hitter. Guys like Sammy...
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July 19, 2011
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July 19, 2011
Derek Jeter Ditching the All Star Game is Bush League
Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter has pulled himself out of the All-Star game citing emotional and physical exhaustion from his pursuit of 3,000 hits. Jeter gave Bud Selig and the rest of baseball the proverbial finger by not jumping on a plane and being honored at tonight’s All Star Game. On behalf of baseball fans everywhere, this is one of the biggest loads of garbage...
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July 12, 2011
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July 12, 2011
Eulogizing the Home Run Derby
Major League Baseball has spent most of the past decade on a witch hunt trying to rid baseball of steroids. For the most part, they’ve succeeded in uncovering athlete’s true identities, tainted records, and atrocious speaking skills in front of Congress. Bud Selig’s indelible mark on baseball will be the cleaning up of a game that was riddled with lies...
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July 11, 2011
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July 11, 2011
My First Half MLB Awards
We’re about at the All Star break and, as we usually do, it’s time to hand out some hardware for the first half of the MLB season. It’s been a roller coaster of a first half to say the least, and you can believe that our picks are going to be different from the East Coast homers that work at the mothership in Bristol. On to the picks!
MVP
AL: Jose Bautista...
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July 08, 2011
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July 08, 2011
Padres to American League: “Our Bad”
Remember when Facebook first opened itself up to users other than just college kids and it exploded into this phenomenal thing even though college kids had known about it for years? That’s what happened with Adrian Gonzalez’s arrival to Boston this year. Hell of a comparison, I know. Gonzalez is being thrown around in circles as arguably the best first...
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June 16, 2011
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June 16, 2011
Golf’s Young Guns Go ‘Lonely Island’ With New Video
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No, that’s not Andy Samberg and crew laying down another Lonely Island track. And no, those aren’t four college kids looking for a little attention and internet fame. Those are four of the best American golfers on the PGA tour taking the internet by storm just days before the U.S. Open with one of the funniest videos...
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June 15, 2011
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June 15, 2011
Top Ten Non-NFL Jobs For NFL Players
With the pending NFL lockout, I think it’s time a few NFL players should consider alternate career paths. This whole football thing might not work out. Then what? Funny you should ask! Here are Sportable’s top ten jobs for NFL players during the lockout.
10. Chad Johnson – Entrepreneur. I realize the broad stroke of ‘entrepreneur...
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May 26, 2011
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May 26, 2011
Even Mike Brown Doesn’t Know How He Landed The LA Job
The dark horse candidate emerged in the race for the Lakers head coaching position and, within 24 hours, had the job. Former Cavaliers coach Mike Brown has agreed to take over the reigns of the biggest off-season project in the NBA, the Los Angeles Lakers. Brown was a regular season legend in his time with the Cavaliers, and if it wasn’t for LeBron’s his coaching...
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May 25, 2011
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May 25, 2011
David Stern Throws Darts To Determine Fines
Here’s a shocker; the NBA can’t get a disciplinary handle on its’ players. It wasn’t more than two months ago that we were talking about Kobe Bryant getting caught on camera hitting a referee with a gay slur. David Stern came down hard on Kobe and hit him with a $100,000 fine. So when Joakim Noah popped off at a fan on Sunday night and got...
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May 23, 2011
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May 23, 2011
Petco Park Becoming Graveyard For Padres
2011 marks the eighth season of Padres baseball at Petco Park. Over the eight years, we’ve learned a lot about the way the ballpark plays with both wind patterns and spacious dimensions. It’s massive. Saying Petco is a pitcher park is like saying the sun is hot. The extreme nature of the park has become a detriment to the organization. There...
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May 20, 2011
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May 20, 2011
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