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Longtime New York Sports Writer Phil Pepe Dies at 80 – ABC News
Phil Pepe, a revered baseball writer and radio voice who spent more than five decades covering sports in New York, died Sunday. He was 80. Pepe died of an apparent heart attack at his home in Englewood, New Jersey, his son, David, told The Associated Press. A longtime New York Yankees beat writer who chronicled franchise greats from Mickey Mantle to Reggie Jackson and Derek Jeter, Pepe also authored dozens…
Sport is more about philosophy than we might think – ESPNcricinfo.com
Yes, sport is about scorelines, but we overestimate the extent to which the score reflects performance © Hardy’s Arguing that sport can learn from philosophy sounds improbable. Superficially, sport and philosophy have little in common: one is allegedly purely physical, the other (according to cliché) a matter of thinking about thinking. But professional sport, casting its net ever wider in the search for…
Media Circus roundtable: Inside the life of a sports radio producer – Sports Illustrated
I’ve always been fascinated by the job of sports radio producer given their many hats and roles, from the managing and planning of daily content to serving as amateur shrinks for talent. While you won’t find their names on the show’s marquee—you might occasionally hear their voices—the group of panelists below are the lead producers of some of the most popular sports talk shows in the U.S. and Canada. Last…
Dear Pete Rose: It’s Still a No. Sincerely, Baseball – New York Times
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FS1 to air 17-hour NASCAR programming marathon on Christmas – FOXSports.com
NASCAR fans get a little extra under their trees on Christmas Day, as FOX Sports announces a 17-hour NASCAR marathon, beginning Friday, Dec. 25 (6 a.m. ET) on FS1 with three consecutive hours of “NASCAR Race Hub: Best Of The Year.” As visions of Daytona Speedweeks dance in their heads, viewers get to relive everything from the benchmark 1979 Daytona 500 to the 1992 NASCAR All-Star Race to last season’s…
Reusse: Hockey legend Sonmor had storied career – Minneapolis Star Tribune
Glen Sonmor was an enemy to newspaper deadlines, even though his sister Jean was a sportswriter and news reporter in Toronto. Sonmor was the coach of the North Stars during their near-to-glory days in the early ’80s and the problem he created for newspaper people was this: The locker room door would open, you would spend some time getting quotes from players (perhaps as they smoked a postgame heater) and…
Katie Hoff retires from swimming – NBCSports.com
More: Lance Armstrong Lance Armstrong, former teammate argue again over doping Lance Armstrong’s former doctor wants to stop ‘The Program’ film release, report says Actor took performance-enhancing drugs to play Lance Armstrong in film Lance Armstrong said part of him wants to run an ultra marathon or an obstacle-course race next year in an audio interview published last week. “Part of me wants to go run an ultra, or find a 100-miler to…
Dear Pete Rose: It’s Still a No. Sincerely, Baseball – New York Times
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Barred From Baseball: Rose Is Most Famous, but He Is Far From Alone – New York Times
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Pete Rose ban from baseball remains in place – WABC-TV
Pete Rose remains banned for life from Major League Baseball. Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Monday that he had rejected Rose’s plea for reinstatement, citing his continued gambling and evidence that he bet on games when he was playing for the Cincinnati Reds. Manfred said in a letter sent to Rose and made public that baseball’s hits king hasn’t been completely honest about his gambling. The commissioner also noted that Rose…
Johnny Cueto, $130 million, an opt-out and the modern baseball contract – Washington Post
Johnny Cueto celebrates after pitching a complete game for the Kansas City Royals in a win over the New York Mets in Game 2 of the 2015 World Series. (Peter G. Aiken/USA Today Sports) As baseball’s winter meetings closed last week in Nashville, there was some thought that with all the money pulsing through the sport’s arteries, only one player had misplayed his hand. Johnny Cueto, long the ace of the…
Baseball player Paul Komistek commits to Vols – Knoxville News Sentinel
It’s called the wow factor, and Knoxville Christian School baseball coach Patrick Wade said that Paul Komistek is one of those rare players who has it. Komistek, a 6-foot-2, 180-pound sophomore, passed the eye test with the Tennessee coaching staff, too. Tennessee offered Komistek a scholarship Wednesday, and the multiple-positional player committed to the Vols for the class of 2018. “I had a bunch of schools looking at me, but…
Why it matters that Serena Williams is on the cover of Sports Illustrated – Vox
Since 1954, Sports Illustrated has declared the most groundbreaking, important person in sports each year, starting with British runner Roger Bannister, the first known person to ever run a mile in under four minutes. This year the magazine has named its ninth woman ever to the list: tennis champ Serena Williams. While it may not be a shock that this dominant female athlete was named Sports Illustrated’s 2015 Sportsperson of…
How a Boy’s Concussion Death Changed British Sports – New York Times
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Who’s fired up about the perfect Carolina Panthers? The NASCAR world – FOXSports.com
It’s a great time to be a fan of the NFL’s Carolina Panthers. With a dominant 38-0 victory at Charlotte, North Carolina’s Bank of America Stadium on Sunday over the visiting Atlanta Falcons, the Panthers continued their march toward an improbable perfect season, and at 13-0 remained the NFL’s only unbeaten team. With the vast majority of NASCAR drivers residing in the metro-Charlotte and most of their respective teams also…
NASCAR TV schedule: Dec. 14-20 – Nascar
RELATED: See the full weekend schedule | NBC Sports Live Extra All times ET Monday, Dec. 14 6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub: Best of the Year (re-air), FS1 6:30 p.m., NASCAR America: Stories of NASCAR #4, NBCSNTuesday, Dec. 15 6 a.m., NASCAR America: Stories of NASCAR #1 (re-air), NBCSN 6:30 a.m., NASCAR America: Stories of NASCAR #2 (re-air), NBCSN 7 a.m., NASCAR America: Stories of NASCAR #3 (re-air), NBCSN 7:30…
NASCAR.com’s 2015 holiday gift guide – Nascar
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Porn star hired to run Italian soccer team – New York Post
Sara Tommasi has made the bizarre jump from porn movies into the football boardroom. The well-known Italian beauty has been hired by amateur side Marruvium in her homeland, although her exact role is still unclear. Tommasi’s road to her new role has certainly been an interesting one. From appearing nude on camera and starring in several hardcore porn films to dating football stars such as Ronaldinho and Mario Balotelli, the…
Pete Rose Ban Upheld by Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred – New York Times
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Barred From Baseball: Others Banished From the Game – New York Times
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