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Sports Illustrated
January 10, 2001
Frank Deford |
The hot stove league Once upon a time there was an offseason. Super Bowl? NFL Playoffs? The NBA? Hard to imagine today, but for much of the 20th century, perhaps as late as into the 1960s, the sports calendar effectively ended with the New Year's Day bowl games...   |
Fast Company
June 2010
Austin Carr |
The 2010 FIFA World Cup by the Numbers The World Cup, which takes place June 11 to July 11, may be the be-all-end-all for soccer fans. Compared with other popular sports, it wins in financial terms as well. |
Sports Illustrated
October 25, 2000
Frank Deford |
National Passed Time Baseball is still our game -- if we can stay awake. The bizarre thing about baseball is nobody disputes that the games are too long, and because of this the game is being terribly harmed... |
Sports Illustrated
July 4, 2001
Frank Deford |
Independent thought In America, sport is a reflection of liberty... |
Sports Illustrated
November 15, 2000
Frank Deford |
NBA recount Reversal of fortune harms league's image... |
Sports Central
March 9, 2009
Luke Broadbent |
NFL Team in London? Let's Hope Not Talk once again has turned towards the possibility of a permanent NFL team in London. According to a senior league official, London could have their own team within 10-12 years. |
Sports Central
March 7, 2007
Will Tidey |
World Cup 2018: U.S.-Bound? U.S. soccer fans seem destined to have the world's greatest sporting event on their doorstep sooner rather than later. |
Sports Central
July 26, 2011
Paul Foeller |
A Gentlemen's Game? Golf may not be a wild, lawless sports arena where anything goes, but it's also far from the boring sport it's gained a reputation for being. |
Sports Central
January 20, 2007
Greg Wyshynski |
The Booze, Banter, and Betting Theory A sport's popularity, on a professional or college level, can be directly linked to its fans' ability to debate it, bet it, or use it as the entrance point for a few hours of total inebriation. |
Sports Illustrated
August 23, 2000
Frank Deford |
Do athletic beauties defy stereotypes? Most arguments about sex, like sex itself, involve both sexes. But currently, a discussion about sexiness in women's sports is pretty much an intra-gender conversation that's only between the ladies. The gentlemen, including this one, are standing on the sidelines, happy only to watch. |
AskMen.com
Ross Lipschultz |
Football Dives: It's In The Game Soccer's stars are notorious for their tendency to take football dives and ham it up for the fans whenever possible. They trip, fall, cry, and whine more often than babies learning to walk. |
Fast Company
September 2015
KC Ifeanyi |
Can the NFL trounce FIFA to define "football" once and for all? The stateside popularity of American pigskin has always been as fierce as soccer's unshakeable foothold in Europe and Latin America. |
Sports Central
October 29, 2008
Luke Broadbent |
An English Perspective on the NFL This year's NFL International Series game was clearly the perfect advertisement for offense, while last year's was an advertisement for British weather. |
The Motley Fool
June 8, 2006
Brian Richards |
Is It Worth That Much? Investors, why is American Airlines -- a company that hasn't posted a profit since 2000, a company that's losing nearly $1 billion per year -- spending millions on sports venue naming rights? |
AskMen.com
Mark Simmons |
soccer betting What do we think about when high-budget sporting franchises come to mind? Baseball? Basketball? Hockey? Although all of these might be valid answers to the question, soccer should also be added to the list. |
Sports Illustrated
September 11, 2001
L. Jon Wertheim |
Too-Big Mac Enough, already! John McEnroe's mighty mouth threatens to devour tennis... |
Sports Illustrated
June 21, 2000
Frank Deford |
Cornelius Warmerdam, writ larger O.K., to nitpick, Tiger Woods hasn't stood the test of time. But excepting that, who has ever been this good in a major sport? Never mind his victories. Woods never has an off tournament. |
Salon.com
June 27, 2002
Allen Barra |
If the U.S. won the World Cup An apocalyptic scenario involving Howard Cosell. |
Sports Illustrated
June 17, 2002
Phil Taylor |
No vacancy U.S. has no room for soccer on its full sports plate. |
Sports Central
February 18, 2013
Mert Ertunga |
Five Questions With Pat Cash For most tennis fans, Pat Cash, the 1987 Wimbledon winner, member of multiple Australian Davis Cup teams in the 1980s, and former top-five player, needs no introduction. |
The Motley Fool
March 29, 2011
Nick Kapur |
A War Between Pakistan and India Will Erupt Tomorrow A sporting event of historic proportions. The match to watch right now is between two talented national teams from two rival nuclear powers -- India and Pakistan. |
Sports Illustrated
June 17, 2002
Tim Layden |
Give soccer a chance If there were justice in the sports universe, the players from an amazing spring would momentarily step aside today. All would understand that what is taking place in the World Cup is just a little bit better than what they are doing or have done. |
Sports Central
June 29, 2010
Brad Oremland |
Why I Don't Love Soccer Why has the beautiful game of soccer, something easy both to play and to understand, failed to make headway against baseball and basketball and American football? |
Salon.com
July 11, 2000
Larry Platt |
John McEnroe His combination of talent and temperament worked hand in hand, exploding on the court and turning tennis into performance art. |
Sports Central
September 20, 2010
Justin Shagrin |
London Calling Is the NFL selling out because of its international game in London? |
AskMen.com
October 18, 2000
Mark Simmons |
World Wide Web Of Sports: Going Online If you wonder where the world of sports is headed next, then look no further. Sports commissioners and league presidents are actively searching for new ways to branch out and keep adding fresh blood to their pool of fans. They have found the answer: The Net. |
Salon.com
May 30, 2002
Andrew O'Hehir |
The greatest show on earth It's World Cup time again -- when more than a billion people will be enthralled not just by the joy of victory and agony of defeat, but also by the mystery and despair that is championship soccer... |
Sports Central
July 11, 2013
Kevin Beane |
NFL Culture By Team (Part 1) I think any sport or spectator pastime has a greater chance of taking permanent root if the learner has some sort of larger understanding of each team, its culture, its reputation, and so on. |
Sports Illustrated
October 11, 2000
Frank Deford |
Saturday secession Northeasterners adrift when it comes to collegiate football... |
Sports Central
July 11, 2011
Bill Hazell |
Locked Out Twice? The NFL labor dispute is on the edge of being resolved, but the NBA lockout has just started and thus, they are nowhere near an agreement. |
Sports Illustrated
September 16, 2002
Jon Wertheim |
Pat Mac talks Davis Cup Afflicted by Davis Cup fever? We didn't think so. But Patrick McEnroe believes tennis fans might be if there were some rhyme or reason to the competition's time and season. |
Sports Central
October 26, 2010
Tom Kosinski |
Is the Tennis Season Too Long? The tennis season is way too long. Just like basketball, hockey, and baseball (the World Series hasn't even started yet and it's the end of October) tennis has become just another drawn out non-spectacle. |
Salon.com
June 22, 2002
Gary Kamiya |
Welcome to the world In defeat, the U.S. soccer team won an epic victory: It brought America into the world of sports. |
Salon.com
May 24, 2002
Allen Barra |
Soccer may be the world's sport, but it will never be America's Every four years soccer officials assure us that if the U.S. men's team makes a run for the World Cup, their sport will finally break through in America. Dream on. |
Sports Illustrated
May 21, 2002
Grant Wahl |
Soccer coverage SI's coverage of soccer is expanding -- just not as fast as, say, boating... |
Sports Illustrated
August 2, 2000
Frank Deford |
All sports trends shall come to pass There is a lamentable tendency for the smarty-pants experts to get carried away by some attractive new sports champion and presume that that achievement must somehow portend great and broad significance. In fact, in the culture of sports, there is rarely much change at the top. |
