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Curt Schilling Retires

A sad day in baseball, Curt Schilling retires today, ending a wonderful career as a pitcher in pro baseball. He was one of my favorite pitchers and pitched for one of my favorite teams, the Red Sox. I had a feeling this day would soon be here, but it still hits hard. Pitchers like Schilling [...]

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Brian Mandeville

Brian Mandeville who played football at Northeastern has worked through all kinds of adversity to get where he is today. In 2005 he underwent surgery for a brain tumor and has also had to fight through multiple knee injuries. He was one of the prime targets in the NFL draft at the tight end position.
Unfortunately [...]

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Tom Renney Fired

(AP) Tom Renney was fired as coach of the New York Rangers on Monday in an attempt to save a season that has spiraled out of control.
The Rangers opened the season with a 10-2-1 record, but 10 losses in the last 12 games has knocked the team out of contention for the Atlantic Division title [...]

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Top 10 NFL Draft Prospects of 2009

While the draft prospects for this year’s NFL Draft may not be as talented as last year’s stacked selection, there are still a few diamonds in the rough. Any team would be lucky to gain the talents of these top players.
10. Brian Orakpo: Nicknamed “O-Sack-Po”, offensive lines in college feared this man with good reason. [...]

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Jeremy Lusk Motocross Star Dies From Accident

(AP)—Jeremy Lusk, an American freestyle motocross rider, died of head injuries Tuesday after crashing while trying to land a backflip in competition. He was 24.
Jorge Ramirez, chief of the intensive care unit at Calderon Hospital where Lusk was taken, said the motocross racer suffered severe brain damage and a possible spinal cord injury.
Lusk won a [...]

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Amare Stoudemire May Get Traded

The Phoenix Suns are going to have to trade a player or face paying the luxury tax which would hurt their franchise. Wierd thing is, they are planning on trading Amare Stoudemire instead of the aging Shaquille O’neal.

Other teams are already clamoring for Stoudemire, especially one bent on rebuilding their programs. This should tell the [...]

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Glen Rice Jr Spotlight

Glen Rice Jr is not quite as good as his sharpshooting NBA star father. But he has the size and close shooting ability to make it as a wing at a good school like Georgia Tech. He was highly recruited and picked Georgia Tech over Miami, and Florida State. He played at George Walton in [...]

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Tiger Woods Has A Son!

(AP) On the day Tiger Woods usually hoists a trophy at Torrey Pines, the world’s No. 1 golfer was busy with the birth of his first son.
Woods announced on his Web site early Monday that his wife, Elin, had given birth to a boy, Charlie Axel Woods. It is the couple’s second child following the [...]

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Peyton Mannning’s Prank Goes Awry!

Peyton Manning thought he was being funny by hazing the pro bowl rookie Jay Cutler. His prank was that he threw Cutler’s diabetes monitor into the pool. However it seems that wasn’t the original plan.
Here’s how it happened, courtesy of the Denver Post:
The gang of Pro Bowl football players had been gathered around the tables, [...]

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Sandy Koufax a Madoff Victim!

The legendary Dodgers Pitcher Sandy Koufax was one of the many Madoff ponzi scheme victims. The three time Cy Young winner was conned out of millions just like other on the “client list” according to documents that were made public in a U.S. Bankruptcy court yesterday. There was no specific mention of how much Koufax [...]

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