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The US Olympic Hockey team was a collection of college players and they were up against the seasoned pros from Russia. The idea that they could possibly win was almost beyond comprehension. Russia had not lost an Olympic hockey game since 1968. And then the “Miracle on Ice” happened.
Early Saturday morning, after a 15 hour bargaining session and a 149 day lockout, NBA commissioner David Stern and representatives of the owners and the players of the NBA announced that a tentative deal has been struck that calls for training camps to open [...]
With the controversy over Manny Pacquiao’s majority decision victory over Juan Manuel Marquez not going away any time soon, it’s time to get out the round by round scorecards, and the round by round Compubox stats, and start doing some detailed analysis to understand [...]
There is plenty of blame to go around for the bizarre and disappointing finish to the Mayweather-Ortiz fight. This morning I’ve been looking online for clear explanations of exactly what happened, and more importantly, exactly what the role of fight refereee Joe Cortez was [...]
Manny Pacquiao’s advisor Michel Koncz emerged from a Manila Hotel where he watched the Mayweather-Ortiz fight with Manny Pacquiao and provided the first insight into Pacman’s reaction to the bizarre ending to the fight in which Mayweather sucker punched Ortiz while the latter was [...]
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The World According to the strange and tormented mind of Floyd Mayweather
Last night at his post fight press conference after his ‘victory’ over Victor Ortiz, Floyd Mayweather first collapsed into tears for a full minute (more about that later), then [...]
If you missed the USA-Brazil World Cup quarterfinal soccer match in Dresden Germany today, go find someone who DVR’d it and watch an instant, transcendant classic that had everything — heroes, villains, plot twists and reversals, and a final transcendent moment where patience and [...]
Another Pacquiao fight — another drubbing of a much larger opponent, and Pacquiao’s legend as a boxer grows. But the fight between Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito produced not just a memorable pay-per-view experience worth every penny of the $64.95 it cost — it [...]
From its stirring beginning with Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus hitting the ceremonial first drives on Thursday, to the incredible moment of Phil Mickelson hugging wife Amy so long it seemed like he would never let her go, this was a Masters which–with all [...]
The full Masters Theme Song and Tiger Woods’ Famous Chip-in
