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At last, coverage of women's sports that even this non-spectator can appreciate. Plus: One writer's plaintive cry: "Enough with the sex, dammit!"
By Jenn Shreve
November 5, 1999
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This small film about a small town and its small hockey team tells nothing more than a little Cinderella story.
By Chris Colin
October 1, 1999
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If you're not as old as Kevin Costner's aging character at the beginning of this dreary baseball fable, you will be by the end.
By Andrew O'Hehir
September 17, 1999
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Showtime's sorry drama "The Hoop Life" and its young writer want to dramatize the sporting life, but on the court or off, reality is always far more interesting than fiction.
By Robert Wilonsky
August 18, 1999
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Pushing the body to athletic extremes may be harmful to your health.
By Andrew Taber
July 26, 1999
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The Village Voice pronounces Generation X as dead as Kurt Cobain and as irrelevant as a Cheesy Poof. Plus: Alternative health stories that don't suck.
By Jenn Shreve
July 9, 1999
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A single T-ball mom admits her crush on the
heroically patient coach of the perfect kids' game.
By Virginia Moran
June 8, 1999
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A dutiful soccer mom secretly obsesses over softball.
By Sallie Tisdale
May 20, 1999
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A legendary newspaperman picks five sports novels that really hit home.
By Pete Hamill
May 3, 1999
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As the pro cycling season begins, drug-use scandals continue to explode.
By Andrew Taber
April 21, 1999
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In an era of noisy sports superstars, the nation will miss the private dignity of Joe DiMaggio.
By Steve Kettmann
March 9, 1999
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If you film it, they will come: A passionate sports fan begins his cross-country pilgrimage with a visit to Iowa's Field of Dreams. Excerpted from "Road Swing," by Steve Rushin.
By Steve Rushin
December 18, 1998
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Their merciless sweep of the Padres in the 1998 World Series places the New York Yankees in the pantheon of the greatest teams ever to play the game.
By Steve Kettmann
October 22, 1998
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The San Diego Padres hope getting out of New York will change the momentum of the World Series.
By Steve Kettmann
October 19, 1998
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This is the main event: The gritty Padres venturing into the hard-as-nails mayhem of Yankee Stadium to face one of the most elegant -- and greatest -- teams of our time.
By Steve Kettmann
October 16, 1998
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Being athletically challenged is not genetic.
By Carol Snow
September 22, 1998
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To catch World Cup fever in America, you've got to find the rest of the world. That's why God invented bars. Gary Kamiya goes on the Grand Eurotrash World Cup Bar Tour
By Gary Kamiya
July 9, 1998
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Mary Roach reports on the Inuit Games, an annual competition involving Head Pulls, Knuckle Hops and other daunting competitions 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
By Mary Roach
January 7, 1998
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Did Glen Ridge raise its sons to be rapists?
By Leora Tanenbaum
August 13, 1997
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Charles Taylor reviews "The Erotic in Sports" by Allen Guttman.
By Charles Taylor
October 1, 1996
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