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Not the solution, but could have been an Answer
There are two very good reasons why the Knicks are knuckleheads for passing on Allen Iverson. For one thing, they've fallen completely off the radar in New York. I've been following sports since about 1960 around here, and I can't remember a time ...
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NBA
Brazil
New York Knicks
Allen Iverson
Italy
Germany
French thievery
So France just knocked Ireland out of the World Cup in an overtime qualifier, and did it in a way that finally will allow the French to forget the horrors of Zinedine Zidane's head butt - and send the Irish into an understandable dither.
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Soccer
France
World Cup
Zinedine Zidane
Thierry Henry
William Gallas
You call that a triple-triple combination??
I went all the way up to Lake Placid to watch the Michael Jordan of figure skating, and then Kim Yu-Na started flopping all over the ice as if she were an American or something. Very disappointing. It was like catching Jordan on a 4-for-22 night. You ...
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NBA
Michael Jordan
Canada
What's the frequency, Kenneth?
I was at Jets' practice today and couldn't help but notice again the fellow at on the top of the crane taking movies of the workout.
And it just reminded me about how absurd things have become in the NFL. Why do football coaches need to break ...
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NFL
New York Jets
Rex Ryan
King endorses king
I've always thought that Billie Jean King was an accidental rebel. By that, I mean circumstances pushed her into pioneer roles as a spokesperson for women athletes and gays. King is not innately anti-authoritian. Quite the contrary. She has great ...
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MMA & Boxing
Yankees Schmankees
Far be it from me to rain on Brian Cashman's well-deserved parade, but the Blahg is just too negative a place to let things slide. So it must be pointed out that, really, none of the Yanks developed by Cashman over the past decade had much to do with ...
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MLB
New York Yankees
Andre the giant ego
Andre Agassi whines so elegantly in his new autobiography, "Open," he can consider himself an honorary Blahg member, free to post here at any time. He whines about Brooke Shields and Pete Sampras and his father. He also whines about sportswriters, ...
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Tennis
Pete Sampras
Andre Agassi
Cappin' America
Well, here we are in November, time to focus on sports that have stupid salary caps. That means New York doesn't gain an unfair advantage and therefore is very unlikely to capture a title again until the Yankees hurl some more money around and buy ...
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NBA
Citizen Kane, Thidwick the Moose and Sasha Cohen
I seem to have accumulated several blogosphere outcats - I have nothing against outcasts, believe me - who've begun to post somewhat indecipherable comments on the Daily Blahg.
I have compared them to the pests on the antlers of Thidwick the ...
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NHL
Patrick Kane
Make instant games, not instant replays
I keep hearing people argue for replay reviews during baseball games, and I'm thinking: You want these games to end at 2 a.m., instead of 12:45?
No, in my perfect (and improbable) world there are no interruptions at all during the playoffs. In my ...
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Other
Player of the centaur-y
Voyeurs keep searching for sexual innuendo in Alex Rodriguez's reported self-imagery as a centaur. I think it has more to do with cheating. In Greek and Roman mythology, it is a dying centaur, Nessus, who defeats the mighty Hercules (or Heracles) by ...
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MLB
Alex Rodriguez
Cole Hamels
Not Wild about logos
I Tweet a daily sports haiku, and was trying to figure out for my elegant poetry if there were any more Philly vs. New York sports events this weekend. I knew the Giants faced the Eagles in Philly on Sunday and the Knicks would play host to the ...
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NBA
Whining ugly
I was shopping at the supermarket the other day when an elderly fellow cornered me in the produce section. "I know you," he said. "You write for the Post."
"Actually, the Daily News," I said politely.
"Well I don't read either of them," he ...
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MLB
New York Yankees
Bad riddance
You know the worst thing about being a Jet fan? It's bad enough that you never win anything, but you can't even get away with saying, "Good riddance!"
Every time some malcontent or underachiever leaves, he plays or coaches much better somewhere ...
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NFL
Bill Belichick
Pete Carroll
Soccer ball in the side pocket
Ira Berkow, a former sports columnist from the Times (they have a lot of former columnists over there, unfortunately) always used to tell me, "It's amazing. Something amazing is always happening in sports." And on Saturday, another amazing thing ...
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Soccer
Premiere League
Darren Bent
Pepe
Liverpool
Snow must go on
When I was leaving Minneapolis on Monday, there was already an inch of snow on the ground. They had to de-ice my plane, as if it were mid-winter.
And that got me thinking the Twins are absolutely crazy for building a new stadium without a roof. ...
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MLB
Heading to Africa
Sometimes, a lack of discipline can be highly productive. Consider Jozy Altidore, the young American soccer star, who was just one of eight Americans carrying yellow cards into the World Cup qualifier Saturday night in Honduras.
A second yellow ...
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Soccer
Honduras
World Cup
Costa Rica
Florida... Texas... Alabama... LSU... Virginia Tech... Boise State...
I can't think of one good reason to follow college football. The five top-ranked teams are all from the South, there isn't a Northeastern school ranked in the Top 10, and the only college even remotely from our area is Penn State, at No. 14. We just ...
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NCAA Football
Virginia Tech Hokies
Boise State Broncos
Alabama Crimson Tide
Derek Jeter
Penn State Nittany Lions
I'm sooo sorry...
I have a confession to make, and feel just terrible about it: I hate Bernie Williams' music.
I had to admit this to myself today, after hearing another radio ad for one of his upcoming concerts. I had been in denial, or somehow hoped he would ...
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MLB
Bernie Williams
Bridging the gap
I got out of a Yankee game the other night, walked down Babe Ruth Plaza and headed across the eight-lane morass known as 161st St. in the Bronx. I barely made it alive in a mad dash for one of the meridians, and asked one of several traffic cops on ...
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MLB
New York Yankees
Stop the madness
I was in the Yankees' zillion-dollar clubhouse this morning, and I started worrying on behalf of the high-definition televisions and the laptops in the lockers.
What if the Yanks clinch today and Champagne is sprayed all over those computer ...
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MLB
New York Yankees
Joe Girardi
Titan-ic disaster
Throwback uniforms are an uncomfortable fit under normal circumstances, but this Sunday the Jets-Titans game will set a new precedent for nonsense.
The idea is to honor (read: sell many licensed jerseys from) the AFL's inaugural season 50 years ...
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NFL
Tennessee Titans
New York Jets
Houston Texans
Who?
This just in from the New York Road Runners: Patrick Makau, James Kwambai and Jaouad Gharib have entered the New York Marathon field!
What? You've never heard of any of them? Well of course not. And there are probably no more than a thousand New ...
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Other
Glass-half-empty ruminations
I can't think of any example in recent history in which a team messed up its young pitcher as badly as the Yanks have wrecked the mindset of Joba Chamberlain. He doesn't have a clue anymore how to approach a game. It's like he's half starter, half ...
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MLB
New York Yankees
Boston Red Sox
Fenway Park
Joba Chamberlain
Ninety degrees of separation
So here I am at the Courtyard Marriott in steamy Arlington, bored to death, waiting for a football game that won't start for another eight hours. Out of sheer ennui, I am forced to Blahg again. Apologies to the poor web crew, which really doesn't ...
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NFL
Told you so...
It is fairly common for me to receive knucklehead comments from a variety of fans foolish enough to second-guess my opinions or predictions in my columns or Blahgs. Usually, I just let it go, because I'm such a nice guy.
This time, however, I ...
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NCAA Football
Wisconsin Badgers
Wofford Terriers
Batty batters
In hockey, you're responsible for your own stick. So how can hitters in baseball get away with flinging their bats in close quarters as if they were Frisbees?
If your flimsy maple bat breaks and gets in the way of a fielder, why isn't it called ...
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MLB
Mark Teixeira
Yankee Stadium
Citi Field
About that football club from Washington D.C...
Good for the seven Native Americans who have persisted over the past 17 years in pursuing a legal suit to invalidate the Washington Redskins' nickname and trademark, because it is offensive and defames Indians.
The group is taking its case to the ...
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NFL
Washington Redskins
Out of the bunker
I've covered my share of so-called minor sports in my day. Nobody can question those credentials. And what I've discovered is that the smaller the sport, the more petrified the organizers and commentators are about controversy.
Whether it's ...
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Tennis
Kim Clijsters
But I have a trophy!
So there I was, walking out of Yankee Stadium the other day with Lupica. And some fan walks toward us, ignores me completely, reaches his hand across my face toward the columnist walking next to me and says, "Hey, you're Mike Lupica!"
I took some ...
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MLB
Yankee Stadium
Mike Lupica
Split decisions
The messy divorce in Melanie Oudin's family got me thinking about how it is always about the parents in women's tennis, and how those parents never seem to have their acts together.
Virtually every top player in the past two decades has endured ...
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Tennis
And on Seventh Avenue...
"Ovechkin to drive Zamboni up Sixth Avenue."
That's the subject line on the email. Honest. And I'm afraid this is probably not the way the NHL should be selling its best player to New York. Not only will Ovechkin be driving a Zamboni in a stupid ...
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MLB
Reebok
Derek Jeter
Remember the date
I've been lucky enough these past few weeks to view a wide assortment of sports, and an even more varied bunch of fans. A lot of couples were in the stands, everywhere. And that led me to the thought: Which sports are good date events, and which ...
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Soccer
Sorry excuse for sportsmanship
A lot of people don't like it when tennis players apologize by raising their hand for net cord or mis-hit winners. Personally, I find the habit charming. It's nice to see Melanie Oudin display such traditional etiquette. Her gestures demonstrate that ...
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NFL
Do the right thing, redux
I applaud Bud Selig's support for rescheduling the Yankee-Red Sox game on Sept. 27, in order to avoid a conflict with Yom Kippur. There is no reason in the world to force Jewish players and officials to face a conflict regarding their religious and ...
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MLB
Bud Selig
Boston Red Sox
Jackie Robinson
Making tennis watch-able
Let's be honest here. I speak as a friend of the sport and a long-time player, but ... tennis is not a made-for-TV event. The big matches last way too long, the players' personalities are generally too bland, plus the court itself is too confined and ...
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Tennis
Get me rewrite, or re-blog
The media world just keeps getting wackier and less comprehensible. I was checking into the U.S. Open today, and some guy in front of me on line got his credential after announcing he worked for "Momentum." I no longer have any idea whether these ...
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Golf
U.S. Open
Drip... drip... drip
I would never buy a ticket in advance for a baseball game anymore. That's because it might rain on that day, and then the experience will become utter misery.
In the old days, the game was postponed when it rained. But now the drainage systems ...
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MLB
Rangers 10, Godzilla 9
The Yankees are many things to many people. But they are not "Rocky" to anybody. And so when the Bombers insist on showing trite movie clips of Rocky or Rudy on the videoboard, it just doesn't work - even when they're trying to overcome a five-run ...
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MLB
Hideki Matsui
Play it again, sham
So many weird things happened at the Mets-Phils game on Sunday - an inside-the-park homer, an unassisted triple play and a pitcher yanked on a 3-0 count - that it was easy to overlook the real precedent that was set: We saw the first replay reversal ...
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MLB
Jeff Francoeur
Pedro Martinez
Cubbies cuddly again?
I grew up rooting for all pro teams with baby animal nicknames, regardless of geography. By the time I was a teenager living around New York, this meant some particularly painful moments. While my friends were reveling in great victories by the Mets ...
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NFL
Indianapolis Colts
Chicago Cubs
On double standards
Although I’m a vegetarian and animal rights proponent, I appear to be much more forgiving than my e-mailers when it comes to Michael Vick (one guy wrote that he hoped my daughter married someone like Vick, which probably is not going to happen ...
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NFL
Michael Vick
But I loved the food...
Hate to be a whiner, but I have never experienced worse working conditions than at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City for the U.S.-Mexico World Cup qualifier. Officials jammed American reporters into two rows of tiny seats amid the crowd, with inadequate ...
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Other
Mexico
Singing 'Born in the USA' in Mexico City
MEXICO CITY - Well, I woke up in the middle of the night and my son still wasn't in the other hotel bed, and it was like this was high school all over again. He finally came back after reporting on (read: partying with) Uncle Sam's Army at the nearby ...
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Soccer
Mexico
Pass the salt
I'm at a new hotel that appears to have only three guests: me, my son and Jere Longman of the Times. There are about six workers assigned to each guest. You walk around here and people want to perform a task for you immediately. Actually, they demand ...
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Soccer
ESPN
NBC
The son also rises (in the next bed)
MEXICO CITY - I don't have many regrets in life, but I do wish I'd taken Spanish classes instead of French starting in seventh grade. What a mistake that was. The French won't even let me speak French in France. And here I am in my chosen vocation ...
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Other
Mexico
On, Wisconsion. Beat... who?
I haven't been paying much attention to my alma mater's football team lately, but today I got an email from the University of Wisconsin Alumni Association inviting me to purchase tickets to the Badgers' home opener against Wofford College.
Even by ...
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MLB
Rubber duckies
Michael Phelps had the nerve to lose a race the other day, which only intensified the debate over whether swimmers should be allowed to use the latest polyurethane (read, rubber raft) swimsuit worn by the winner, Paul Biedermann of Germany. The suits ...
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MLB
Getting the goop off
The crowd in East Rutherford on Sunday for the U.S.-Mexico match, more than 79,000, was reported as the largest soccer crowd in the history of Giants Stadium and just part of an incredible month here in the States. If Don Garber wants the last laugh ...
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MLB
World Cup
ESPN
Leave me alone
Great. Now I have re-kindled all kinds of high school Math Team one-upsmanship among old classmates. Fran Ferrara, another nerd from East Brunswick High School, has pointed out that Ira Fine's calculations in the previous Blahg are off base because ...
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