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...will get out of bed, unconsciously, and I'll walk through the play, and try to correct it. I pride myself in doing that. If I had a girlfriend, she'd be like, "Larry, what are you doing?" She'd get confused by it. My love for this sport is definitely a sickness. It's one of my best attributes, but at the wrong time, it can be one of my worst attributes...
...wider impact, frequent local blackouts could do some long-term damage to the NFL's business. In Detroit, Yuille believes that after five Lions games were blacked out last year, casual fans completely lost interest in football. "More than anything, television is a mass-market promoter of a sport," says Zimbalist. "You don't want to cut that...
...players - are at increased risk. Almost all cases of SCD occur in athletes with hereditary or congenital cardiovascular diseases like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a thickening of the heart. In 80% of cases, these diseases are asymptomatic and death occurs with little or no warning, almost always during or shortly after sport. Screening programs can identify heart abnormalities, but physicians disagree on which programs should be used and on whom and how often. (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...before gender tests show whether the 18-year-old South African is in fact a woman. Preliminary results of the tests--ordered after her masculine physique and dramatically improved performances prompted complaints from other runners--showed Semenya had three times the level of testosterone of a typical woman. The sport's authorities are trying to determine whether she has a genetic condition that blurs her gender and gives her an unfair advantage. South Africans, who overwhelmingly support the runner, welcomed her home on Aug. 25. Her family and President Jacob Zuma firmly maintain that Semenya is female...
Well, to me it's pretty obvious. The fact of the matter is, [tennis is] now pulling from a worldwide talent pool. We're probably the second biggest sport worldwide, and there's not really a country that's not involved in tennis right now. So with the growth of the game worldwide, the talent is going to be a lot more spread out. I think you're seeing that on a smaller scale with basketball. It used to just be, How much is the American team going to win by? Now the sport has grown so much that...