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Sports Nut
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A Commissioner Everyone Can Hate
On further review, Roger Goodell butchered this season from end to end.
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Farewell, Andy Reid
The Eagles coach was good enough to make you hate him for how bad he was.
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You're Fired Because ... Well ... Hmmm
Lovie Smith, the coach who got canned on the NFL's Black Monday for no good reason.
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He Can Pass! He Can Run!
Russell Wilson is the quarterback Darrell Bevell always wanted.
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Roger, Over and Out
Paul Tagliabue rules that the NFL doesn't have a bounty problem, it has a Goodell problem.
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Why the NCAA Doesn’t Care about Concussions
In college football, the risk of legal liability is dictating the response to a medical crisis.
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Ultimate Fleecing
UFC’s deal with Fox was supposed to secure its future. So why is the premier mixed-martial-arts promotion in such bad shape?
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The Shill Becomes a Journalist
In speaking up for gun control after the Jovan Belcher murder-suicide, Bob Costas finally took advantage of his pulpit.
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The Big East Is a Failed Experiment
So is every other college conference. Here’s a better approach to blowing them up.
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The Performance-Enhancing Drug That Doesn’t Enhance Performance
Adderall isn’t helping football players do anything but get suspended.
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Miguel Cabrera Is Mitt Romney
The Tigers slugger was the candidate of old white men. Lucky for him, that’s who decides baseball’s MVP awards.
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The Coach Who Never Paid Retail
Red Auerbach (1917–2006), from Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame
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Cross-Court Winner
Renée Richards (1934– ), from Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame.
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The Unnatural
Bobby Fischer (1943–2008), from Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame.
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Who’s the Greatest Jewish Athlete?
An interview with Franklin Foer about Jewish jocks, and how they changed sports history.
