[I]n order to be aware of this 'warning', you had to open an email with a subject line having nothing to do with anti-doping, click on a webpage, enter a password, enter a username, hunt, click, hunt, click, hunt, click, scroll and read. |
| | | | | Maria Sharapova. | | | | | |  | “[I]n order to be aware of this 'warning', you had to open an email with a subject line having nothing to do with anti-doping, click on a webpage, enter a password, enter a username, hunt, click, hunt, click, hunt, click, scroll and read.”
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| rantnrave:// Well, that was a long weekend. Long as in the incredible UCONN-CINCINNATI quadruple-overtime thriller FRIDAY night. And long as in CBS' SELECTION SUNDAY show, which, as far as anyone knows, is still in progress... This much we know: The NCAA selection committee hates NEW JERSEY. SETON HALL a #6 seed? MONMOUTH not invited? If neither BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN nor BON JOVI sing the national anthem at the championship game, you now know why... A breakdown of the 68 teams that did make the cut... Bracket tips from a DAVIDSON (speaking of not invited) math professor... MARCH MADNESS' first out gay player... Welcome to the only month of the year where DES MOINES is considered to be in both the SOUTH and the WEST (it's not even in southern or western IOWA). Likewise SPOKANE and PROVIDENCE. If any NCAA Division I basketball players are flunking geography, it might not be their fault... What tennis authorities call warnings, MARIA SHARAPOVA calls really really bad UI... KANYE WEST is just like you and me. He hates the new CLIPPERS mascot, CHUCK THE CONDOR. Unlike you and me, he has spun that hate into really nice CLIPPERS tickets. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Tennis Magazine |
| There's a court of law, and there's a court of opinion. As Maria Sharapova's doping controversy circled around Indian Wells for another day, it increasingly began to divide along these two tracks. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| MESA, Ariz. - Sean Doolittle, the ace reliever for the Oakland Athletics, would rather not be known that way. He has a charming impulse to ridicule anything that sounds absurd and self-righteous, even if it is accurate. His Twitter handle - @whatwouldDOOdo - is a pun and a question, a vessel for jokes, but also for good will. | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| Where did the selection committee go wrong with this year's NCAA tournament bracket? Let Joe Lunardi count the many, many ways. | | |
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 | FOX Sports |
| Stop it. Please. Stop. You know who you are. Just -- come on, it's time to stop. Despite the annual charade of defending, analyzing and mourning those poor, unfortunate basketball teams deemed unworthy of joining the Madness, these so-called snubs do not exist. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| Outside his dressing room, Dee Dee Sharp waited patiently with her mother. After recording "Slow Twistin'" with Chubby Checker and releasing such hit singles as "Mash Potato Time" and "Do the Bird," the attractive and coquettish Sharp was at the top of her recording career. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| Panel: Sports leagues and teams will continue to rake in huge media rights fees. The question is, from where? | | |
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 | The Drum |
| Away from his weekly duties as an analyst at the NBC Sports Premier League studios, Kyle Martino is perfectly relaxed in his out-of-studio attire, soaking in the Austin sun at the NBC Sports Lawn at SXSW. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| Ireland had just seen off Bosnia-Herzegovina to qualify for the European Championships when their dressing room was invaded by a caped crusader. "I'm going to France!" cried the 60-year-old, his grinning bald head protruding from a beer-soaked Superman outfit. The players responded with unrestrained joy. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| At least 99 athletes have tested positive for the drug, according to the World Anti-Doping Agency, startling officials over its widespread use. | | |
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 | Maria Sharapova |
| A report said that I had been warned five times about the upcoming ban on the medicine I was taking. That is not true and it never happened. No excuses, but it’s wrong to say I was warned five times. | | |
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| Vice Sports |
| It's hard to overstate just how much the lives of sports fans have changed since StubHub was born in the year 2000. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| After a season of parity, will greatness emerge over the next three weeks? | | |
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 | Banished to the Pen |
| Rather than give you a blow-by-blow of every presentation, I thought I’d just run off some of the greatest hits. | | |
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 | SportTechie |
| AUSTIN, TX - As has become increasingly apparent, the NBA is a digital-focused league. This has lead to strong international growth for the top global basketball league and sets them up for continued growth in the time of cord cutters and Snapchatters. Today at SXSW, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver shared his thoughts in a "Courtside" chat at... | | |
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 | New York Magazine |
| Elena Delle Donne, a six-foot-five forward for the WNBA's Chicago Sky, was named Rookie of the Year in 2013 and MVP just two years later. The powerhouse athlete can play four different positions, and last season she hit a staggering 95 percent of her free throws, becoming only the fourth player in history -- male or female -- to do so. | | |
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| ESPN.com |
| "There's no question this stuff happened," a source told Outside the Lines. "There's no question the people at the University of Louisville know this happened." | | |
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 | The Conversation |
| In the next few days, humanity's ego is likely to take another hit when the world champion of the ancient Chinese game Go is beaten by a computer. Currently Lee Sedol -- the Roger Federer of Go -- has lost two matches to Google's AlphaGo program in their best-of-five series. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Several dozen people gather under a punishing December sun outside the weathered baseball stadium in this port city 60 miles east of Havana, pushing and shoving in the hope of glimpsing the eight major leaguers who have come for a children's clinic. | | |
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 | WSJ |
| Injury prevention in the NBA is an oxymoron. That's the problem with injuries: They can't be prevented because they can't be predicted. But what if they could? | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Richard Linklater's newest movie, "Everybody Wants Some," which depicts a college baseball team in the sex, drugs and rock 'n roll era of 1980, makes its world premiere tonight when it kicks off the SXSW film festival in Austin. | | |
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