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Sports Nut
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Big Dancer
The 7-foot-5-inch Sim Bhullar is unlike any other player in college basketball.
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I Beat Duke
What it’s like to take down college basketball’s most hated program, in the words of the men who did it.
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Here We Go, Blue Team, Here We Go
Forget team names. Make your March Madness picks with Slate's 2012 mascot and school-color brackets.
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How to Win Your NCAA Pool
Act like a hedge-fund manager and pick Florida to win it all.
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Methods to the Madness
Bored by your run-of-the-mill NCAA bracket contest? Try one of these 11 alternative ways to gamble on the tournament.
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Who’s No. 1? Who Cares.
The totally pointless debate over where to seed the top teams in the NCAA Tournament.
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The Saga of Tomsan
How an American journeyman revolutionized Japanese soccer—and why it isn’t happening in the U.S.
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The Rarest Play in the NFL
Last night was probably the closest we’ll ever get to a Super Bowl fair-catch kick.
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I Was Manti Te’o
Don’t believe anyone could fall for a man pretending to be a woman over the phone? It happened to me.
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The Night the Lights Went Out in New Orleans
Well, that was the weirdest Super Bowl ever.
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The Running Men
Are mobile quarterbacks like Colin Kaepernick more injury-prone than pocket passers?
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The San Francisco Retreat
The 49ers are moving to Santa Clara. Why didn’t the team’s longtime home try harder to keep them?
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A-Rod Hearts HGH
Will a crackdown on (supposedly) performance-enhancing growth hormone just make the drug more popular?
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The Fake Girlfriend Experience
Why didn’t sportswriters catch on to Manti Te’o’s phony relationship? Because they didn’t care to look.
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Fox Gets Conservative
Did the Denver coach’s risk-averse approach cost the Broncos a playoff victory?
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Extra Points Are for Losers
There's a late-game scenario in which going for two is always the right move. Why don't NFL coaches ever do it?
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The Lesson of RGIII
The health of an NFL player belongs to everyone but the player himself.
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In Defense of Mike Shanahan
Why the Redskins coach shouldn't be attacked for playing Robert Griffin III.
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"You Have To Step Up and Be a Man Sometimes"
Robert Griffin III twisted his knee on the oldest clichés in sports.
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A Season of Miracles in Washington
The Redskins reappear, and the owner vanishes.
