Articles tagged "sports"

Sports Feature

LeBron James and the Beat Book

by Craig Fehrman

[21.Oct.08] :. If beat reporters keep churning out books on 'Bron, why aren't we learning anything? These books represent the current state of the beat book -- and indicate it may be in serious trouble.

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Major League Baseball 2K8

by Jason Cook

[16.Apr.08] :. MLB 2K8 has gone the innovation route, overhauling many standards of the baseball sim, making it an interesting experiment in what baseball games can be.

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Stage is set for new generation of sports icons

by David J. Neal [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[11.Mar.08] :. Brett Favre retires. Polarizing Bob Knight walks away. Whether heroes or villains, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens don’t have jobs. The once-dominant Diesel has been sent to the desert to finish...

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Smash Court Tennis 3

by Azmol Meah

[12.Dec.07] :. Smash Court Tennis 3 lies in the murky middle ground between Wii Sports' tennis and Virtua Tennis, neither excelling in any particular area nor really doing that much wrong.

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Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis

by Arun Subramanian

[5.Dec.07] :. Although the Wii version of Table Tennis offers players three separate control schemes, none seem to take full advantage of the Wii remote.

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NBA 08

by Darwin Hang

[12.Nov.07] :. The biggest complaint is not with gameplay, but with the fact that there are players missing from rosters.

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Scoring from Second by Philip F. Deaver [Editor]

by Neal Hayes

[11.Jul.07] :. Even the very best baseball players convert only three or four of every ten at bats into base hits. Perhaps Deaver can find some sort of poetic consolation in that statistic.

 

Mag Review: Play

by Cliff Lee

[20.Apr.07] :. If you’re reading Play: The New York Times Sports Magazine, odds are that you’re not a sports addict. A sports addict, after all, would have no use for a quarterly magazine that...

 

Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich by Mark Kriegel

by Dan McGrath [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[10.Apr.07] :. Mark Kriegel makes a convincing case that the free-form, imagination-driven game played today started with Pistol Pete.

 

Remember Eddie Robinson’s America, too

by David J. Neal [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[5.Apr.07] :. MIAMI - Racism limited Eddie Robinson’s opportunities to coach his beloved football. Racism told many of his players where they could and couldn’t play football, just as it tried to tell...

 

Roy Williams, Phil Jackson head Hall class

by Ken Tysiac [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[3.Apr.07] :. ATLANTA - If Roy Williams were a baseball player, he’d have to choose a cap to wear to his induction ceremony Sept.7 in Springfield, Mass. “It would be a `Tar Hawk’” cap, he...

 

Melk: Sports

by Mike Schiller

[16.May.05] :. Straight outta Comp--er, Copenhagen? Danish hip-hoppers bring the heat.