All posts tagged "Culture"
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/ 2 months agoThirty years ago, Chris Farley and college basketball collided in an unforgettable way
Thirty years later, Christian Laettner isn’t sure he knew it was coming. In 1994, he was in the NBA, his second...
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/ 2 months agoHow love, Warriors basketball and poetry brought Tom Meschery back
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The poet has been upstairs in his office, tapping at the keyboard on various projects. Most of his...
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/ 2 months agoA Hall of Fame coach’s son got his fairy tale ending. Now he wants to know how the story began
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Steven Izzo sat in his locker, aw-shucksing the high point of his adult life, playing a familiar...
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/ 2 months agoWhen your landlord bats leadoff: The insular, clannish world of baseball real estate
Shortly after haggling his way out of free-agent purgatory and into a new contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Kiké Hernández...
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/ 2 months agoAmid tragedy, one high school basketball team shows the power of sports
GRETNA, Neb. — This is not a story about high school basketball. It’s not about a treasured coach who died midway...
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/ 3 months agoCollege athletes are getting closer to becoming employees. What would happen next?
The NCAA inches closer every day to a tipping point of dramatic overhaul. Years of tectonic shifts around college sports could...
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/ 3 months agoThe business of Sarah Nurse: She’s one of the faces of hockey, but her sights are set on more
TORONTO — Sarah Nurse was driving home from a recent PWHL Toronto practice when she got a bit of sage advice....
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/ 3 months agoGranny style: Can an 84-year-old make the WNBA? She’s got their attention
Shirley Simson, an 84-year-old mother of four, grandmother of 14 and great-grandmother of 10, stood inside the lobby of Las Vegas’...
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/ 3 months agoMan on a mission: NFL great Alan Page’s quest for justice in football and beyond
MINNEAPOLIS — A few times each month, Alan Page visits Justice Page Middle School, one of two schools named in his...
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/ 3 months agoThe wacky true story of the hockey team that inspired ‘Slap Shot’
Once upon a time, there was a screenplay for a hockey movie that was so absurd, so over the top, that...