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For N.Y. headline writers, the game is on

Last updated Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 8:51pm

INDIANAPOLIS -- It's Super Bowl week, where a throwaway line becomes a headline faster than New England Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker gets downfield.

Nothing is small at the Super Bowl. Everything is BIG.

Little things, trivial things, can quickly become, well, supersized.

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EPL gets 1st U.S. live network telecast

Ronald Blum The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 20, 2012 - 6:25pm

NEW YORK -- Without much fanfare, soccer will take another big step into the American mainstream this weekend when Manchester United's game at Arsenal becomes the first English Premier League match to be televised live by a U.S. over-the-air network.

"To do this 10 years ago, had we put to the affiliates that we wanted to take the time to show a soccer game, we would have been either laughed at or it would have been a violent and an immediate rebellion,"' said Fox Sports Chairman David Hill, who is putting the match on his main network.

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Collier: Sports cliches that achieved grateness

Gene Collier Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Last updated Saturday, December 31, 2011 - 1:17pm

Welcome again to the annual literary exercise in which we try to figure out exactly what our sports figures and broadcasters and writers are saying, particularly when they are merely trafficking in sports cliches. Our Body of Work on this matter stretches back to 1984, when, in a full column-deadline panic, we strung together every sports clichE in the book and passed it off as legitimate social commentary, a spasm that became a tradition. Here is the 28th annual Trite Trophy dishonoring the worst sports cliche of the year.

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Reilly puts money where his mouth is, gives Jimmer his due

Chris J. Miller Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 23, 2011 - 9:31pm

Sports fans love or hate columnist Rick Reilly, depending on the week or his topic.

Back in March, the Sports Illustrated wag said Jimmer Fredette would never survive in the NBA.

He vowed to pay $5,000 to the Cougar great's favorite charity if he started even five games during his rookie season.

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Packers' Finley calls Tebow coverage 'disturbing'

Tyler Dunne Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Last updated Sunday, December 18, 2011 - 6:27pm

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Tebowmania is sweeping the nation and one Packer isn't happy about it.

Tight end Jermichael Finley is fed up with the attention Denver's Tim Tebow has received this season.

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ESPN documents Herren's dark addictions

Rick Bentley McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 9:08pm

LOS ANGELES -- Chris Herren was a highly touted basketball player when he was young. But his time at Boston College, Fresno State and the Boston Celtics became tainted by a decade-long addiction to cocaine, OxyContin and heroin.

"The tough times that my family went through, my children went through, I went through, it became a family illness," Herren says.

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San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh, left, and Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz, right, shout at each other after an NFL football game in Detroit, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011. The 49ers won 25-19.

'Handshake-gate' just one example of media beating the dead horse

Jim Burton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 3:17pm

We owe you an apology.

We in the media -- we ink-stained wretches, in the words of the great sportswriter Dave Kindred -- get lost once in a while. We get a little confused as to what's really relevant, especially in this day of total media saturation.

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For 75 years, AP football poll has stirred the pot

Jim Litke The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 17, 2011 - 6:35pm

It began back before bowl games mattered and has riled fans coast to coast ever since. It's been analyzed in dissertations and villainized in letters no newspaper would print. Instead of simply surviving, it's thrived.

So say "Happy 75th Anniversary" to The Associated Press' college football poll. Lou Holtz just did -- and like more than a few other members of the coaching fraternity, he's been nursing a grudge against the poll for years.

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Reporter's expose on Miami Hurricanes was surreal journey

Glenn Garvin McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 7:08pm

MIAMI -- There was a moment this spring when a dazed Charles Robinson realized he had barely moved in 12 hours. Another day -- there had been months of them -- had been swallowed whole by the vast wasteland of paper surrounding him on his living room floor: the endless stacks of old phone bills, canceled checks and courtroom depositions from which he was trying to piece together a dark picture of athletic scandal at the University of Miami.

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Costas says Ebersol leaves a lasting legacy at NBC

Dan Caesar, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Last updated Sunday, May 22, 2011 - 4:14pm

ST. LOUIS -- Dick Ebersol, who announced his resignation Thursday from NBC after running its sports division for 22 years and also being very influential on its entertainment side, leaves a legacy that the network's lead on-air personality says is immense.

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17 years, 2,500 games later, Klauke still voice of the Bees

Chris J. Miller Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Friday, April 29, 2011 - 8:19pm

Even the weather couldn't keep Steve Klauke from hitting his mark.

Klauke, the only radio announcer in the Salt Lake Bees franchise history, called his 2,500th game as play-by-play broadcaster on Tuesday at Spring Mobile Ballpark. Now in his 18th season with the Bees, he can be heard at KFNZ-AM 1320.

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Honoring Obermayer's dedication and durability in reporting on boxing

Bernard Fernandez, Philadelphia Daily News

Last updated Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 3:58pm

PHILADELPHIA -- One of the things that binds us to sports is our fascination with the statistics they generate.

Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. Cal Ripken Jr.'s 2,632 consecutive games played. Wilt Chamberlain's monster 100-point and 55-rebound games. Jerry Rice's 197 touchdown receptions. Archie Moore's 131 knockout victories. Those numbers are as familiar to fans as the dates of loved ones' birthdays.

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Sky Sports commentator fired in sexism row

Steve Douglas, The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 3:55pm

LONDON -- One of British football's leading television commentators was fired Tuesday for "unacceptable behavior," days after making sexist remarks about a female match official that sparked widespread debate about the role of women in the sport.

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Monday Night Football not what it used to be, or is it?

Philadelphia Daily News

Last updated Sunday, November 14, 2010 - 4:45pm

PHILADELPHIA -- "Monday Night Football" still matters.

By adding games on Sunday and Thursday nights, the NFL has eliminated its uniqueness.

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NBC reaches deal to keep Derby rights through 2015

Dave Skretta, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, October 8, 2010 - 3:30pm

NEW YORK -- The Kentucky Derby will remain on NBC through 2015.

Churchill Downs Inc. and NBC Sports announced Thursday a five-year agreement in principle to extend the network's exclusive rights to the Run for the Roses, which has aired on NBC since 2001. A person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press that it's valued at about $5 million per year, far less than the roughly $6 million annually in the previous contract.

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