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COWBOYS GIVE, GET DEAL The NFL either punishes too harshly or not at all. It measures risk and reward in odd fashion. Its teams will gamble wildly or be ultra-conservative in today’s highly-charged climate....
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BOXING For years, boxing devotees yearned for a match between Manny Pacquiao, a powerful puncher, and Floyd Mayweather Jr., a defensive wizard. For years, their warring camps failed to make the fight happen. The...
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FEELING A DRAFT At last, the NFL draft. After months of speculation about who is going where, endless reports of trades that may or may not be made, and continued scrutiny of the top...
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BORLAND’S TIME TO GO Put the game first. Put the team first. That’s always been football’s way. And now maybe it is changing, because the game and the teams didn’t put the health of...
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TRIPLE-DOUBLE TROUBLE Russell Westbrook sometimes sends mixed messages, but he’s putting out one on not only a consistent level but an astronomic one. This guy wants to be the NBA’s MVP. The Oklahoma City...
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THE DEAN OF COACHES Dean Smith, a marvelous college basketball coach at North Carolina and an even finer man, died Saturday night at the age of 83. Tributes poured forth on Sunday for the...