Articles Tagged with #sports
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Tournamenting
Rebellion Rules in a Conformist World
Last year, our correspondent entered a March Madness pool with brackets filled out by his mother, who knows nothing about NCAA men’s basketball. He won. Now it’s time for lightning to strike twice.
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End Zone
Postseason
Even if your team makes it to the playoffs, it’s only a brief stay of execution: The season extends, at the most, five weeks. Which means, for those...
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Our Passions, Our Day Jobs
Diary of a Post-Adrenaline Junkie
Some decisions are best made heedlessly, based on the chance for an epic story—and some people think like that all the time. A report on what it’s like to slide down a volcano on a piece of sheet metal at 55 mph.
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End Zone
Super Bowl, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bill Belichick
That I am going to support the Patriots was never really in question. The Giants have eliminated the Packers from the playoffs twice in the past four years, and there...
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End Zone
Season Retrospective
In Week 8, the Giants (5-2) and the Patriots (5-2) both had a worse record than the perennially disappointing Lions (6-2). What other team had a 5-and-2 record that week? The...
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End Zone
Conference Championships
Whatever the reason, something went horribly wrong for Green Bay at Lambeau on Sunday. It was as if, in a Freaky Friday-type incident, the Packers’ entire offense had switched...
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End Zone
Division Weekend
Of perhaps slightly greater significance, as we look ahead to this weekend’s Divisional Playoffs: It turns out that clichés, just like dreams, sometimes do come true...
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End Zone
Wildcard Weekend
Watching football is a complicated pleasure, one distinctly tinged with discomfort, even guilt. You can’t watch James Harrison, the Steelers linebacker, head-butt Browns quarterback Colt McCoy to the...
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Election 2012
Yoga for Presidential Candidates
Running for president is stressful and allows little time for exercise. But a special set of yoga positions, from the Downward-Facing Spiral to a Soaring Newt, can offer just the break from routine that a candidate needs.
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Late Night Sports Radio
Better in the Dark
Even as a kid I noticed that the radio announcers—Jack Buck and former coach Hank Stram—were several leagues superior to their counterparts on TV. Buck and...
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The Sports Page
The Procreant Urge
Ted Williams’s last game for the Red Sox was almost a flop. But it provided fuel for one of the best sports essays of all time—until the author started tinkering. On baseball, The Simpsons, and the creative impulse to never stop.
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Late Night Sports Radio
Homage to Terrence Malick, Part Two
This morning I went to the Old Town Country Kitchen in Bath to get something to eat. Bath has a population of 268. It was the first incorporated town in North...