About The Sports Blog
What are the components of sports? For starters, at an early age, sports involvement is designed to teach you things like sportsmanship, competitive spirit, and teamwork. Next, there is usually a set of game rules to follow when taking part in sports. And finally, there's a team or individual competition that yields a winner.
Sounds simple, but when it comes to the world of sports, debates over which team is the best, whether or not the coach blew the game, or which athlete deserves the highest accolades, can rage on and on. The Sports Blog is here to provide a play-by-play and help keep score of the latest sports-related news and views.
From game rules and regulations and recent sports scandals to controversies concerning performance-enhancing drugs to over-the-top contracts, sports stories are always big news. Whether you love baseball, football, hockey, basketball, golf, or other sports, add this to your required reading list, sports fans!

The Sports Blog — We Hardly Knew Ya
I started writing as the first Sport Blogger here in July, and after approximately 200 posts over the last 7 months, I’ve been told to...

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Two Mintues in the Box
The St. Louis Blues are on pace to be the worst team in the NHL this year. Now we know that every year, at least one team has to be the worst, bu...

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Super Mario is the Best
Mario Lemieux retired for the second time in his career yesterday. Super Mario finishes his career as the seventh leading scorer in NHL history, bu...

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Two Minutes in the Box
The New Jersey Devils, despite a loss last night to the New York Rangers, have pulled a Lazarus and resuscitated their season with their re...

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The Shake-Up: On-Field Officials
Welcome to the inaugural issue of The Shake-Up, which every week will take a hard look at one aspect of sports today and make a big change. I...

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Two Minutes in the Box
What the Philadelphia Flyers have been able to do this season given over 200 man games missed due to injury is a testament to the organization. Ev...

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The Disneyfication of Sports Movies
When I discovered the film “Glory Road” was about the 1966 Texas Western NCAA championship basketball team, I was excited — un...

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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
The Tampa Bay Lightning waived captain Dave Andreychuk yesterday, less than two years after he helped to lead the Bolts to a Stanley Cup Ch...

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