This past weekend was one of my favorite pro golf events of the year: The Players Championship, from the TPC Course at Sawgrass, Florida. The distinctive course design, featuring the…
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A Long Wait
Yesterday, the final games of the 2011-2012 Barclay’s Premier League season were played. At one end of the table, teams were fighting to stay out of relegation (where the bottom…
Going The Distance
How pitching has changed over the years. Cy Young (who has a rather prestigious award that carries his name) won 511 games in his storied career. Bob Gibson, Cardinals great…
Overcoming Adversity
This past weekend, in the divisional round of the NFL Playoffs, the Houston Texans did more than just make their first postseason appearance in the history of their franchise—they won…
Finishing Well
So, here it is—the final race of the long NASCAR Sprint Cup season. What began in Daytona back in February is going to be resolved on Sunday as stock car…
Needed: Patience
As a Cleveland Browns fan, I have rooted for the Browns for almost 50 years (hard to believe, but true). Still, the last two decades have just about been the…
Enduring a Long Season
The NASCAR season is brutally long—stretching from February at Daytona to November at Homestead. It is a 36-race marathon that feels longer and longer as you get buried deeper and…
Finishing The Race
The end of a baseball season can be a bit disillusioning. Why? Because there are teams that, in a sense, have nothing left to play for—and it shows on the…
At The Death
The US women’s soccer team will play France in the semifinals of the Women’s World Cup in Germany today for one reason—an Abby Wambach goal Sunday against Brazil “at the…
Going The Distance
In baseball, they are called “innings eaters.” Pitchers who go the distance—pitching deep into games and consuming 200, 225, or 250 innings in a year. They often do not have…
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All athletes share one element of sports: pain. Whether it is the soreness of a weekend warrior who did too much, a Little Leaguer whose team lost the championship game,…
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