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Blockheads like Mike Ditka can talk all they want about defense and running. With Kurt Warner healthy, the Rams can smoke anybody.
By Allen Barra
December 13, 2000
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Acknowledging that the days of leather helmets, the quick kick and both-way players are gone would be a start.
By Allen Barra
December 6, 2000
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Anna Kournikova, the Britney Spears of tennis, is already nearing the end. Plus: Stinkbombs for John McEnroe, baseball's Senate hearings, Mike Lupica.
By Allen Barra
November 29, 2000
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Tiger Woods and the Williams sisters want a bigger cut of the increased revenues they've created. Not for winning, but just for showing up. Only a fool would give it to them.
By Allen Barra
November 22, 2000
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Tim Brown's career is a long tale of personal dominance in the service of bad teams. But this year he may finally get some glory.
By Allen Barra
November 15, 2000
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Notre Dame is enforcing stricter academic standards in a push to deemphasize football. Why now?
By Allen Barra
November 10, 2000
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The yellow first-down line and the glowing hockey puck are just the tip of the high-tech iceberg that will change how you watch sports.
By Allen Barra
November 1, 2000
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The NBA is suffering, not because it misses Michael Jordan, but because there are too many teenage millionaires who can't shoot.
By Allen Barra
October 31, 2000
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And have a bat thrown at them for their trouble. The Yankees are making the plays, and that's why they're dominating the Series.
By Allen Barra
October 24, 2000
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Thanks to a bloated playoff format and declining TV viewership, this year's World Series doesn't have quite the resonance of those from the "Golden Age."
By Allen Barra
October 21, 2000
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A massive new biograpy dishes heaps of DiMaggio dirt -- and comes across pretty grubby itself.
By Allen Barra
October 19, 2000
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Why is every decent American not railing against this exploitative, vindictive institution that has had such a disastrous effect on higher education?
By Allen Barra
October 13, 2000
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The Yankees ended the season with a swan dive for the ages, and all their once-cantankerous owner could muster was a shrug.
By Allen Barra
October 6, 2000
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When did the Games become simply an American TV show?
By Allen Barra
September 30, 2000
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Sure, he's totally unlovable, but the San Francisco Giants superstar is still the best player in the National League, and maybe the best in baseball.
By Allen Barra
September 29, 2000
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September 26, 2000
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The marketing firms and New York pundits who want a college football playoff system have one thing in common: They don't like or understand college football.
By Allen Barra
September 22, 2000
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Greed, hypocrisy, dumb sports and Bela Karolyi, just for starters. Plus: Mets? Braves? Try Giants. Dennis Miller: He doesn't know football, but at least he's not funny.
By Allen Barra
September 15, 2000
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The Bill Walsh-inspired offensive revolution has had an unexpected drawback: Every NFL team looks the same now.
By Allen Barra
September 8, 2000
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September 7, 2000
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Defense doesn't win games. The run doesn't set up the pass. And other ways NFL commentators are full of it.
By Allen Barra
September 2, 2000
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American sportswriters can't stand fighter Prince Naseem Hamed. But he doesn't give a damn.
By Allen Barra
August 25, 2000
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Roger Clemens really doesn't give a crap anymore what you think about him, and that's why the New York Yankees will probably take it all again this year.
By Allen Barra
August 18, 2000
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August 16, 2000
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HBO's new documentary does justice to "the greatest sporting event of the 20th century," and reveals a side of Muhammad Ali we haven't seen before.
By Allen Barra
August 11, 2000
Rearmed and dangerous
Oops, she lost again
Transcending the game
The invisible superstar
The traffic jam Series
Joe Cruel
3 yards and a cloud of baloney
The boxer currently known as Prince
The Rocket is back!
The battle behind Ali-Frazier I
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald
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