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Thursday, October 27, 2011

THEO ESPTEIN: GET BARTMAN

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On his first day on the job, Theo Esptein, the new Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations, was asked if he was going to reach out t...
Friday, September 30, 2011

THE INCREDIBLY TORTURED SOUL OF BILL BUCKNER

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As I was watching the ESPN documentary "Catching Hell", the riveting story of how Steve Bartman single-handedly, according to so...
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

WALTER PAYTON: SWEETNESS CAN'T BE SOURED

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Sweetness. Rarely has a nickname suited an athlete more perfectly than the one given to Walter Payton during his college days at Jackson S...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

I SHOWERED WITH EVAN LONGORIA AND LIKED IT

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Evan Longoria's walk-off home run put the exclamation on what was, arguably, the greatest night of baseball in regular season history....
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Sunday, September 25, 2011

DIANA NYAD: A TRUE INSPIRATION TO THOSE WHO SAY, "I CAN'T".

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With the premiere of "Moneyball," the Red Sox riveting collapse, and another NFL weekend, it was easy to miss the incredible miss...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

"MONEYBALL HITS ONE OUT OF THE PARK

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"Moneyball" is brilliant. It's not easy to turn a movie about baseball and the implementation of something called sabermeteri...
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Monday, September 12, 2011

FAT GUY TO TOUGHMAN: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

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Do you ever feel like certain events in your life could make for a good sitcom? That's kind of how I felt when I showed up for the Toug...
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Hard-working, creative, and lover of good words, competition, and testing my limits. Graduate of UNC and Tar Heel baseball player. Signed with Boston Red Sox as free-agent. Hit a HR in "Bull Durham" off Nuke. Former sports anchor/reporter at NESN, Fox Sports Net and MLB.com.5-time Ironman, 3-time NYC Marathon finisher. Wedding singer and Solid Gold dancer. "It's not the critic who counts, but the man who gets in the arena to compete that does."
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