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Sex, Sports, and Caster Semenya

tynansanger tynansanger posted 6 days ago from newyorker.com

Semenya became accustomed to visiting the bathroom with a member of a competing team so that they could look at her private parts and then get on with the race. “They are doubting me,” she would explain to her coaches, as she headed off the field toward the lavatory.

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The Lessons of the Cy Young Awards

tynansanger tynansanger posted 6 days ago from bats.blogs.nytimes.com

Obviously, there is no substitute for pure talent. But in Greinke, Bannister’s teammate, we are seeing what can happen when off-the-charts talent meets sophisticated understanding of numbers.

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Why Deadspin Had to Publish the ESPN Horndog Glossier

tynansanger tynansanger posted 10/22/2009 from bleacherreport.com

"Serious journalism" was never Deadspin's job. Deadspin was created to expose corruption within the entire sports industry, how it conflates the coverage of sports, how far removed it is from the sports fan experience, and how it ultimately hurts sports fans.

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NFL Coaches Are Too Clever for Their Own Good

tynansanger tynansanger posted 10/12/2009 from online.wsj.com

Coaches get too cute with their playbooks, alternating between running and passing plays about 10% more often than they naturally should, according to a study co-written by Steve Levitt (Freakonomics) and Ken Kovash. Coaches' plan of attack sometimes gets too predictable: run, pass, run, pass

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10 Things a Broadcaster Must Do to be Adequate at the Job

tynansanger tynansanger posted 10/12/2009 from blog.lovemyteam.com

The one job Bob Brenley hasn’t held is fan. Instead of complaining endlessly, I thought I would put together a little list of the important tools that any broadcaster needs to have to actually add something to the conversation.

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2009 Yankee Stadium Attendance Tracker

tynansanger tynansanger posted 4/18/2009 from newstadiuminsider.blogspot.com

With the Yankees having trouble filling the expensive seats, now is as good of a time as ever to start a new Yankee Stadium attendance tracker. For now, we will just post the official attendance (based on the box score), the date & time and the weather conditions for that day.

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Cheering Fans, Thrilling NCAA Tournament Disgust BCS Officials

tynansanger tynansanger posted 4/9/2009 from theonion.com

Claiming that...the sheer exuberance of college basketball fans was "a shocking and nauseating display of everything wrong with collegiate athletics," top BCS officials roundly condemned the NCAA Tournament Monday.

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Timelapse: Franklin Street after the victory

tynansanger tynansanger posted 4/7/2009 from vimeo.com

931 images were taken to create this timelapse of the chaos. This camera was set above the intersection of Franklin and Columbia on the rooftop of Spanky's restaurant after North Carolina's championship. By the Daily Tar Heel.

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Why Jose Canseco Is The Sen. McCarthy Of Baseball

tynansanger tynansanger posted 2/12/2009 from blogcritics.org

Let's stop calling Jose Canseco a Whistleblower and call him what he really is: a fearmongering, self-aggrandizing modern-day McCarthyite.

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Hater’s Guide to the Postseason: AFC 2nd Seed — Pittsburgh Steelers

tynansanger tynansanger posted 1/5/2009 from kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com

Kissing Suzy Kolber presents...Night of the Asshole Fans.

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Texas Tech at the Top? Michael Lewis Isn't Surprised

tynansanger tynansanger posted 11/15/2008 from nytimes.com

Mike Leach, the coach of Texas Tech, has led his team to the No. 2 ranking in college football, wowing everyone with a high-scoring innovative offense along the way. Three years ago, Michael Lewis saw this storm coming when he profiled the coach and his program for The Times Magazine.

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Best Hockey Fighters For The Buck

tynansanger tynansanger posted 11/6/2008 from sports.yahoo.com

The best fighter for the money is Colton Orr of the New York Rangers. Orr fought 34 times during the past two seasons (the most in the Eastern Conference), winning 21 of them (tops in the NHL). His $525,000 salary last year was only $50,000 above the league minimum.

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Keeping the News In Perspective

tynansanger tynansanger posted 10/26/2008 from riveraveblues.com

Instead of allowing for negotiating strategies — by saying you don’t want to go somewhere, you raise your asking price — instead of allowing for the struggles of youth, writers and bloggers write off General Managers while displaying a willful ignorance of the role a GM and his scouting staff plays.

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Alex Rodriguez is the least clutch player in baseball

tynansanger tynansanger posted 9/1/2008 from sports.yahoo.com

That's actually not hyperbole, according to sabermetrics. Finally, something stat nerds and old cranks can agree on.

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Eight Reasons This Is Not A Big East Preview

tynansanger tynansanger posted 8/29/2008 from sportsyenta.blogspot.com

General Suckitude is one of them.

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Ebert to Mariotti: Don't let the door bang you on the ass.

tynansanger tynansanger posted 8/28/2008 from poynter.org

Roger Ebert rips into Jay Mariotti for how he handled his departure from the Chicago Sun-Times. A must read.

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Rape Comes To Duke

tynansanger tynansanger posted 8/27/2008 from withleather.uproxx.com

Everyone knows that rape and Duke University are two great tastes that go great together. So it should be no surprise that top soccer recruit Ashley Rape will be joining the Blue Devils this fall.

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Ten Reasons Why The Little League World Series Sucks

tynansanger tynansanger posted 8/25/2008 from deadspin.com

Haven't we just about had it with the LLWS? Here are 10 reasons it should go away.

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NY Post Sportswriter likes to spank baseball players

tynansanger tynansanger posted 8/23/2008 from gawker.com

New York Post sportswriter George King just can't get enough spanking! A tipster went back through King's baseball coverage and found that he takes every available opportunity to relate how the Yankees or Mets were "spanked." It's his favorite word! Just today King wrote about the "14-3 spanking administered by the Blue Jays." But that's just the beginning of his spankfest.

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Why Brett Favre Won't Make Jets Fans Forget About Joe Namath

tynansanger tynansanger posted 8/18/2008 from nymag.com

Will Leitch compares Favre's Legacy to Broadway Joe's at his new digs.

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