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In which the Michigan State basketball coach lectures the media on branding for 6 minutes and 20 seconds. Includes video.
Added: January 26, 2010 at 10:52AM EST
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Wow. Davies is already jogging, broken bones and torn ligaments healed, and on track to be ready for the World Cup this summer.
Quote: The accident right before the United States' final World Cup qualifier in October left Davies with numerous injuries that had an estimated year of recovery time, and then a few more months of rehabilitation. Added: January 26, 2010 at 9:01AM EST
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I'm no Kurt Warner fan, but reading blog posts like this one at places like Deadspin is starting to drive me to write more in my own voice. Again.
Quote: It's difficult to describe Warner, when he's on, when he's '99 Warner, as anything other than bionic. He is a robotically constructed quarterback machine, showing no emotion, no fear, no joy, no panic: He throws the ball exactly where it's supposed to go because that's where it's supposed to go. It's not the chaos of Favre, or the nerdy precision of Manning, or the All-American faux heroism of Brady. There's nothing to it at all: Warner just hits exactly his spot and then jogs down the field to do it again. It's unnerving. It's inhuman. It does not compute. Added: January 14, 2010 at 12:30PM EST
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Not a huge Gammons fan, but as a huge baseball fan who came of age while he was reporting for ESPN, I love the litany of anecdotes here, from Jack Morris to Mariano Rivera.
Quote: And I watched Fidel Castro stand for and sing along with the U.S. national anthem, because it was baseball, and it didn't surprise me because Gene Mauch had told me that when he played there in the 1950s, he had befriended Castro and that first and foremost, in Mauch's words, "Fidel loved baseball the way you and I love baseball." Added: December 14, 2009 at 1:14PM EST
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Khoi Vinh crunches numbers on baseball salaries as a share of a team's total revenue to defend my beloved Yankees' free-spending ways.
Quote: I’ve always thought, too, that vilifying the Yankees payroll was a perspective that lacked dimension. Yes, it’s a consistently stratospheric number, but isn’t it significant, too, that by making their home in New York the Yankees are at the epicenter of the biggest baseball market on the planet? Added: November 9, 2009 at 4:15PM EST
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Fantastic New York Times graphic detailing every batter Mariano Rivera has ever faced in the postseason.
Quote: He has allowed only 2 home runs, has 39 saves, and has a 0.74 e.r.a. over 88 postseason games. A batter-by-batter look at his playoff career. Added: November 6, 2009 at 11:00AM EST
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John Robinson pulls a few classic pieces of minor league baseball coverage out of his paper's archives on the occasion of the Yankees winning their 27th world championship last night.
Quote: Jeter's first mention in our pages came Aug. 26, 1992: Derek Jeter , the Yankees' No. 1 draft choice and the sixth player selected overall in the June amateur draft, made his Hornets' debut at shortstop, hitting a home run in his second at-bat. He also committed an error. Added: November 5, 2009 at 2:35PM EST
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Tom Verducci on Mariano Rivera's long outing in Game 2 and related topics.
Quote: Rivera is so good that it has come to this: he throws two shutout innings and the opponent can find hope in his pitch counts and their swings against him. Added: October 30, 2009 at 12:57PM EDT
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An ESPN.com reporter takes one for the team, sitting in the most expensive seats in the new Yankee Stadium, sipping champagne and spooning house-made relish on his gourmet sausage... Also, why those seats were mostly empty all season.
Quote: And so, ironically, everyone actually lost because everyone won too much. Wall Street folks wanted tickets to close deals. The fans thought they could use Wall Street greed to get something for nothing. The Yankees figured if someone was making all that money off their product, it should be them. These are the things I'm thinking about in the car to the stadium. Added: October 27, 2009 at 10:30AM EDT
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Every time there's a new technology for communication, there's a new channel to police for bad actors, trolls, and, yes, celebrities behaving badly. Chiefs RB Larry Johnson is the latest in what seems like a weekly routine by now.
Added: October 27, 2009 at 10:10AM EDT
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