It really pains me to know that I will disappoint so many people with this choice, but I believe I am doing what I feel is the right thing at this point in my life and my playing career. | | | | | There's a feeling he gets when he looks to the west. (Keith Allison) | | | | |  | “It really pains me to know that I will disappoint so many people with this choice, but I believe I am doing what I feel is the right thing at this point in my life and my playing career.”
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| With the landmark UFC 200 card right around the corner, Eric Tamiso looks back on the most important events that helped UFC -- and the sport of mixed martial arts -- get to where it is today. | | |
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| It would be hard to overstate how shocking it was when Atlanta was awarded the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. Atlanta? Over Toronto? Athens? Melbourne? The news, which came on a Tuesday in September 1990, sent the city into a frenzy of celebration. | | |
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| Love it or hate it, the intentional walk as we know it could soon be a thing of a past. So we take the time to celebrate when strange things happen during one of baseball's quirkiest sequences. | | |
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| The King of the Ring tournament was once responsible for one of the most exciting and anticipated nights in professional wrestling, a series of matches that would crown a single winner destined to dominate the world of sports entertainment for the next year and beyond. | | |
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| How overcoming a broken neck and a bout with cancer led USA Rugby captain Jillion Potter to the 2016 Summer Olympics. | | |
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| Ever since Eric Byrnes used a computer to help umpire an independent-league baseball game last year, and then Brian Kenny took up the mantle of #RobotUmpsNow on the MLB Network, I've been fascinated with the idea that robot umpires will soon call strike zones in baseball. | | |
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| After over a year of non-stop coverage of their personal dispute, Brittney Griner and Glory Johnson are ready to have the focus back on matters on, rather than off, the basketball court. | | |
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