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Let Me Get This Straight About Mr. Livestrong
Lance Armstrong is one step closer to being officially stripped of his 7 Tour de France titles now that the US Anti-Doping Agency has been officially allowed to proceed with its case. He’s decided to...
View ArticleWelcome Back Refs!
Thankfully the NFL refs are now back in action. I’d written an entire post predicting that the lockout would drag on for some time, but the day it was to be published a deal was reached. The NY Times...
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12 Things That Happened In 2012
This time of year many websites and bloggers like to go back through their posts and determine which ones were the best of the bunch. I like to think that most of my writing is pretty terrible and if...
View ArticleFBS Football Explained
We’re entering the final weekend of college football. The national championship is Monday and Notre Dame and Alabama will fight it out for a title. Sports betting has Alabama winning by more than a...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Manti Te’o
If there’s one thing about Te’o we can say with some degree of certainty it’s that he turns 22 today. Everything else is either an unknown or open to interpretation. Is he going to be good in the NFL?...
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Screw The NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is an abomination. College sports are such a wonderful thing. Not only are they fun to watch but it allows for many to have access to a quality education...
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Is Super Bowl Ad Spending Worth It?
This weekend the most viewed television show in the world will air. Last year the Super Bowl was watched by well over 100 million people and this year will likely be no different. These viewers tune in...
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Jordan at 50
Sports fans are probably all too aware that Michael Jordan turns 50 tomorrow. Growing up during his supremacy I don’t think I quite understood just how good he was until long after his retirement. I...
View ArticleTreated Just Like Everyone Else
Oscar Pistorius was such an amazing story during the Olympics last year. It really stole the show despite the fact that he won exactly no medals. I never really bought into the whole thing though. Yes...
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Purple Pricing
One of the things that separates economists from real scientists is their ability to conduct controlled experiments. Economists can very rarely test a theory, which is why so much of the discipline is...
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How College Athletes Planning To Go Pro Protect Themselves
Even if they’re lucky enough to get a scholarship to play football or basketball in college, most guys don’t stand a chance of playing ball professionally. Only a select few elite athletes get a chance...
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The End Of ACC Basketball
Growing up in the south, it’s no surprise that I’m a fan of ACC sports. Many people in the south have deep connections to the schools, either through their own education or simply proximity to them....
View ArticleBrackets Help Us Make Choices
March Madness is in full session. Sports fans love the tournaments of college basketball because there are so many unpredictable outcomes. We fill out brackets trying to predict the final outcome of a...
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Why Colleges Loves Their Sports
Even non-fans are all too aware of March Madness. Each year the media likes to latch on to some fairy tale story of a team that shouldn’t have made it this far. This year, that team is Florida Gulf...
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Rutgers
By now we know all too well about the Rutgers basketball coach. Or I guess, the former Rutgers basketball coach. Tapes of him being verbally and physically abusive were released this week right before...
View ArticleComedians On The Olympics
Warning: very funny, also some bad language. Daniel Tosh: Happy ThoughtsGet More: Watch More Stand-Up. Daniel Tosh: Happy ThoughtsGet More: Watch More Stand-Up. Related posts: Why Is Figure Skating On...
View ArticleA Reminder About “Student-Athletes”
The NCAA, the governing body for most of college athletics, has made a lot of money by referring to their money-makers as “Student-Athletes”. This reinforces the idea that all these people are...
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In Sports, You Should Root For Your Rivals
In sports, it can sometimes be more gratifying to watch your rival lose than it is to see your team win. This is one of the many reasons that March Madness is so fun. There are so many games, and so...
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Why We Don’t Watch Women’s Basketball
The talk of college basketball this weekend was no doubt Aaron Harrison and the University of Kentucky. Harrison is just one of a legion of freshmen on the Kentucky team (his identical twin brother is...
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Just How Much Is An NBA Team Worth?
In the wake of professional crazy man Donald Sterling’s fall from the top we’ve watched a bidding war erupt over selling the Los Angeles Clippers. Retired Microsoft CEO, and at times crazy person...
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