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| The Jester's Quart: Demanding a Refund |
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I have this reoccurring dream where I'm at Shea Stadium watching the Mets blow another game. (Not this year's Mets team, mind you; one of those really painful ones from the early 1990s with Howard Johnson in centerfield and Dave Magadan resembling a human traffic cone at third base.)...
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| Pistons Dethroned |
Their championship reign has drawn to a close, at least for now
By Christopher Shryock
Last Thursday night, the 2004-2005 Detroit Pistons’ season ended. It ended with one win still to be desired which meant that as they left the floor...
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| The Sports Gospel According to Mark- Game 7 Running Diary |
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Everyone in sports had been saying the same thing about the NBA finals from the day they started- they were boring. I finally had enough and decided to figure out, once and for all, if the finals were boring. I decided to take five of my closest friends and head up to the one of the better sports...
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| I Hate Mondays: Follow The Leader |
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Budweiser used to make some beer commercials which drew attention to some of the unnoticed contributors on the football field such as the fullback and the offensive lineman.
Well, maybe its time they make some baseball commercials to...
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| Da Rant: Big Ten Preview plus Email |
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The Big Ten will most certainly be the perennial powerhouse that we have grown accustomed to. The upcoming college season will bring a bit of parity to a league often dominated by Michigan and Ohio State. Even the teams that will fall in the bottom half of...
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| The Jester’s Quart: The 100 Greatest Sports Movie Quotes |
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The American Film Institute recently released another in its seemingly endless "Top 100" lists (i.e. "100 Movies That Didn’t Star Either Michael Caine or Gene Hackman"; "100 Movies With a Cop Who Refused To Do Things By the Book"), this time focusing on "100 Greatest Movie Quotes of All-Time."
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| Debut of SportsRant Radio! |
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SportsRant.com is proud to introduce a new feature of the site, the SportsRant Radio Network. The flagship show, “Great Americans”, is hosted by nationally syndicated columnist Mark Chalifoux and Richie Lamping. Great Americans is a one hour program,...
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| Reds Gave Manager A Raw Deal |
Pity Dave Miley and Don Gullett, victims of circumstance.
Or are they recipients of mercy?
Time will tell, but it’s a shame the Reds let the only two intelligent people in the organization go today.
Their firing is a travesty
The switching of identities by the baseball...
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| Look Familiar? |
Reds struggles mirror that of the 1990s Bengals
By John Katrus
If you follow the Bengals, you’ve been there before. You know the feeling. If the 1990’s were enough to make you swear off the Bengals for life and focus on the Reds, you better hold...
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| An NCAA Tournament Final Story |
This is a story that I failed to publish right after the NCAA tournament final this April. Hopefully you guys will find it as amusing as I did.
As I counted down the minutes at work yesterday, I had only one thing one thing on my...
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| Sports Gospel Point/Counterpoint |
Sports Gospel- Point Counterpoint
June 21st
Mark Chalifoux
There seems to be an influx of opinions in the sports world as anyone who is anybody, and even those individuals who no one knows or cares about, thinks that their opinion is...
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| Down, But Not Out |
By Christopher Shryock
If you are one of the legions of Pistons’ fans lining the Ambassador Bridge today, collect your thoughts and take a step back.
True, Robert Horry put a damper on the teams’ plans for a repeat with his auspicious 3-point shot...
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| I Hate Mondays: Damn Yankees |
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You didn’t think it would last, did you? You didn’t think that Major League Baseball’s role model of success would just roll over and play dead because of a few bumps in the road, did you?
You may have thought it was safe to finally...
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| Broadway Joe and the New York Jets by Callie Spear |
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Three days before the 1969 Super Bowl, Jet quarterback, Joe Namath guaranteed a victory for Thursday’s championship game. Such an announcement was almost without precedent in American sports. Namath represented a team that was almost guaranteed to be...
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| The Jester’s Quart: Wocka, Wocka…What? |
There are now multiple generations that can lay claim to being "The Video Game Generation," including the current crop of teens and preteens that think Al Gore invented the Internet so they can play some unemployed 46-year-old from Milwaukee in ‘Madden 2005’ at 3...
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| Breaking the Drug Taboo |
Once again, the limit for human performance and potential has been shattered as Asafa Powell set a new world record of 9.77 seconds in the 100m. The Jamaican, who beat Tim Montgomery's time of 9.78...
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| The (sports) Gospel: The Best of the Show review |
Sports Gospel
“The Best of The Show” review
June 14th, 2005
Sports Illustrated columnist Bill Scheft recently released a collection of his columns in book form, entitled The Best Of The Show. In case you have never heard of Bill, he used to be a...
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| Red hope |
It could be a fluke, but maybe the Reds' bats are finally starting to awaken. Perhaps they have started to complete the formula for winning which was drawn up in the offseason: bash the ball and hope the pitching is good enough.
Through the first couple of weeks, when the teams hovered...
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| Rebuilding The New Jersey Nets |
Phineas Lambert, Founding Editor, The Back Page
This year’s free agent class is not one replete with talent. In fact, there isn’t a player to be found who could reverse a team’s fortune, save maybe Ray Allen. There is...
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| The Jester’s Quart: Sidney Crosby, Broadway Bound? |
"Since the Great One and Super Mario began re-writing NHL records 20 years ago, hockey pundits and fans have been looking out for The Next One. It's too early to tell if he will reach those great heights, but Sidney Crosby of the Rimouski Oceanic certainly has the hype."
-- TSN.ca, on...
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| The pen is mightier than the juice |
Sports Gospel- The pen is mightier than the juice
Mark Chalifoux
June 7th 2005
After the big news broke last week about Mark Felt’s Watergate revelation it became my journalistic duty to make the obligatory Deep Throat...
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| Kirk Reynolds the scapegoat, the truth lies with John York |
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Kirk Reynolds made national headlines last week and now he’s without a job. Is he a scapegoat for this fall even though he was in the film hugging topless women? Sure he is! Now I am not saying that Reynolds did not deserve what happened to him, his...
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| I Hate Mondays: Off-Season Passions |
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Like sand through the hourglass, so are the days of the National Football League’s off-season.
It is like a melodramatic soap opera that never ends and never allows our attention to be at a deficit. Not even momentarily.
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| The Jester's Quart: The Neverending (Hockey) Story |
"The National Hockey League lockout is going to end."
The above is a declarative statement I take great confidence in authoring. Not only because talks are progressing, and a deal could be finalized as you're reading this. And not only because the esteemed ESPN personality...
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| In Defense of Larry Brown: President of the Cleveland Cavaliers |
By Phineas Lambert, Founding Editor, The Back Page Sports
I don’t think a single person who has followed the NBA and Detroit Piston coach Larry Brown over the years was surprised when it was reported Sunday night that Brown...
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| Is Your Team Going To Make A Move? |
Welcome to this week’s Weekly Rant!!!
As the annual tradition of baseball’s version of musical chairs approaches, it is interesting to see what teams will be active and what teams will be content to run with their current cast. Let’s take a look at the National...
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| SportsRant To Initiate Drug Testing Program |
Please be advised that the SportsRant will conduct random drug testing of it's posters to begin July 1, 2005. In the spirit of new drug testing policies of many
professional sports leagues, it seems only fiting that those discussing these leagues on a public forum should be held to the same...
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| The Trials of a 'Tweener |
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As I move from one season to the next, I start to follow different teams. Just a few months ago, I religiously watched the Cleveland Caviliers and what seemed to be a downhill rollercoaster into mediocrity after a promising start. Right now, I am following the Cleveland Indians. In the fall I will...
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