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Following Bert Sugar’s Death, Nostalgia For a Bygone Age

Posted April 1, 2012, 3:25 pm by Sam Eifling (No Comments)

Sugar lived the character that was Bert Sugar — always wearing a Panama hat or a fedora, always chomping a stogie the size of a chair leg.

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NY Times: American Racetracks Mass-Murder Horses and Maim Jockeys

Posted March 28, 2012, 5:39 pm by Sam Eifling (20 Comments)

But there’s simply no reason the United States should kill 24 horses a week on racetracks, not when the England, which has tougher anti-doping laws, sees just half that breakdown rate

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Derek Fisher’s Trade Shows the High Price of Unproductive Leadership

Posted March 26, 2012, 4:00 pm by Sam Eifling (30 Comments)

His new jersey number in Oklahoma City is 37, all the better to remind the Lakers, if they do play the Thunder in the playoffs, that they’re losing to an antique.

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Brazil is Woefully, Comfortably Behind on its World Cup 2014 Prep

Posted March 20, 2012, 4:10 pm by Sam Eifling (33 Comments)

Do you believe Brazil will be ready for the World Cup? The response is likely to sound a bit like the varying answers I’ve gotten when I’ve posed it to Brazilians lately: They’ll pull it together at the absolute last minute.

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Your NCAA Tournament Bracket is Better Than the Associated Press Says

Posted March 15, 2012, 11:15 am by Sam Eifling (86 Comments)

At the top, things are almost as predictable: about three-quarters of 1-seeds advance all the way to the Elite Eight. And no team worse than a 4-seed has won the championship since Danny and the Miracles carried #6 seed Kansas in ’88.

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Kenny Powers of “Eastbound & Down” Isn’t Real, Except When He Is

Posted February 17, 2012, 6:00 pm by Sam Eifling (15 Comments)

The appeal of “Eastbound” is ogling a jock so self-centered and unaware that he seems to justify our most cynical suspicions about athletes in the ESPN era.

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Yahoo!, Sirius Revive Memphis Sports Talk Host Chris Vernon

Posted February 14, 2012, 4:19 pm by Sam Eifling (41 Comments)

A triumphant story.

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