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Resplendent in his trademark “victory red polo,” Tiger Woods won a PGA tournament late Sunday afternoon for the first time in 1,876 days. NBC executives were ecstatic because a Tiger in the hunt is the ratings equivalent of a hole-in-one. ...

Some of Sean McDermott’s predecessors attempted to distance themselves from it. They said they had nothing to do with creating it, acted as if they hadn’t inherited the football equivalent of a house with a gaping hole in the roof ...

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The history-jarring moment occurred roughly two miles into that Boston Marathon a half-century of Aprils ago. That’s when Jock Semple, the director and self-appointed caretaker of running’s most prestigious race, spotted a woman among the competitors. He was aghast. “This ...

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I don’t know when the ritual began, but each time I step into the batter’s box during a baseball or softball game, I have to smooth the dirt with my spikes. Occasionally, a teammate, opponent or umpire will razz me ...

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Nickels were tossed around like manhole covers during those pioneering days of major league soccer in the United States in the early 1970s. In fact, money was so tight that two-time most valuable player and scoring champ Carlos Metidieri had ...

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Kelly Smith can’t help but believe something greater is at work here, something that goes well beyond pitcher Corey Kluber’s ability to mow down Major League Baseball hitters with the alacrity of a groundskeeper cutting the outfield grass. An American ...

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Hall of Fame Coach Vince Lombardi once said that no one on your football team is quite as popular as your backup quarterback. That’s certainly the case in Buffalo, where citizens of Bills Nation are clamoring for rookie Nathan Peterman ...

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Mike Fennell put down the cheeseburger he’d been munching on and removed his beige Jimmy V Foundation baseball cap. He dragged his right hand across a head rendered bald by numerous chemotherapy sessions. “You want a positive, well, I’ll give ...

It had been a superb bounce-back season for Kyle Williams, a season in which the burly Buffalo Bills defensive tackle rebounded from a leg injury to earn his fifth Pro Bowl invitation. But the greater reward—the one he’d been yearning ...

The game ball Joe Bock received for his role in a Buffalo Bills’ overtime victory 30 autumns ago has seen better days. Much of the paint has peeled off the deflated, commemorative pigskin, but you can still make out Bock’s ...

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Amanda Sparrin vividly remembers how excited her son, Bryson, was when she signed him up to play Challenger Little League Baseball in Webster in the spring of 2010. The charismatic five-year-old, known to everyone he met simply as “B,’’ couldn’t ...

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Gary Passamonte is like a pesky hitter who keeps fouling off pitches in hopes of eventually getting one he can smack for the game-winning hit. In this metaphor, his prolonged at-bat is a cause he’s pursued for nearly three decades. ...

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Though born around the time Ryan Blackwell was taking his final shots and grabbing his final rebounds for Syracuse University, they’re well aware that their coach was once an Orange hoops star. The players on the Liverpool High School varsity ...

Each summer, I make a pilgrimage to two of my favorite museums. You’re probably familiar with the one in Cooperstown, dedicated to baseball history. But unless you’re from my hometown of Rome (New York, not Italy), you’ve probably never heard ...

The much-hyped Discovery Channel race between Michael Phelps and the great white shark would have been much more compelling had man and beast torpedoed through the water side-by-side at the exact same time. Of course, had that been the case, ...