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How LeBron James Broke An NBA Record That Was Once Considered Unbreakable
While it has been far from a banner season for the Los Angeles Lakers, one bright spot has been LeBron James’s pursuit of an NBA record that was once…
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Albert Pujols Is Having A Send-Off For The Ages
Perhaps a homecoming was all he needed.
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How MLB’s Economics Set The Owners And Players On A Collision Course
With MLB in a lockout, baseball is confronting its biggest labor crisis since the 1994-95 seasons. And while games haven’t been lost — yet — this move…
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The Braves Turned A Lost Season Into A Championship
After a season when things seldom came easy, the Atlanta Braves finally changed that script for good on Tuesday night, dispatching the Houston Astros…
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Hideo Nomo Paved The Way For A Generation Of Damn Good Japanese Ballplayers
Welcome to a very special installment of our Hall of Pretty Damn Good Players, a series in which we recognize the athletes who won’t make their sports…
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Dustin Pedroia Led Some Damn Good Red Sox Teams
It’s time for another installment of the Hall of Pretty Damn Good Players — our tribute to the athletes who won’t be in the Hall of Fame, but who still…
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All The Ways That Tom Brady Is Football’s GOAT
After Tom Brady and the New England Patriots beat the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX, we examined Brady’s place in the pantheon of all-time…
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Nobody — And We Mean Nobody — Was Consistently Great Like Hank Aaron
Hank Aaron, who died Friday at the age of 86, was a Hall of Famer’s Hall of Famer. He reached international renown in 1974 by breaking Babe Ruth’s…
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Charles Johnson Was Damn Good Behind (And At) The Plate
Welcome back to our Hall of Pretty Damn Good Players, a celebration of unsung athletes who won’t make their sport’s Hall of Fame but still deserve to be…
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The Dodgers’ Championship Machine Took A Decade — And A Lot Of Money — To Build
The Los Angeles Dodgers’ championship-clinching victory in Tuesday’s World Series Game 6 was a long time coming.
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Nomar Garciaparra’s Full Career Wasn’t Enough For Cooperstown — But It Was Still Damn Good
If you’d told a Red Sox fan in the summer of 1997 that Boston would win three World Series in the next 16 years — well, first, they’d be beyond…
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Bernie Williams Deserves More Credit For Making The Yankees A Dynasty
Any talk of the New York Yankees’ dynasty of the 1990s and early 2000s usually centers on the “Core Four”: shortstop Derek Jeter, closer Mariano Rivera…
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