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The Wall Street Journal Sports A look deep into the numbers suggests it will be a good year for Ohio State and Oklahoma, not so much for Texas.
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Roddick's figurative and Azarenka's literal falls in Flushing. Plus: Isner isn't just the guy from the marathon match; angst over Big Ten scheduling; and more.
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San Francisco Giants CEO Bill Neukom discusses the state of Bay Area sports and how the team is using technology to shrink batters' blind spots.
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The U.S. Open women's 10th seed fell to the ground during her second-round match and was taken away in a wheelchair.
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Video evidence of a Cuban man throwing a ball very fast. Plus: A slim, strong Fish at the U.S. Open; a media double standard on steroids reporting?; and more.
For years, soccer's summer transfer market resembled an annual stampede for talent among England's leading clubs. These days, the view from the transfer window is becoming decidedly drab.
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German race-car driver Stefan Bellof, who died in a race 25 years ago Wednesday, is still revered for his record time at the hallowed course known as "the Ring."
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At many big college-football programs these days, players are posing for "beefcake" photos—stripping down to their uniform pants, lathering up with oil and flexing their pectorals.
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Predicting the lunacy of Ramirez and Guillen in the same Chicago clubhouse. Plus: A surprising extension for Bob Bradley and U.S. Soccer; in uncapped year, Bengals blithely cut Bryant; and more.
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The botanical society in a California town thought it was honoring surfers when it erected a 16-foot tall statue of one riding a wave. Instead, it inspired a wave of humiliation for the hapless bronze dude.
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Concussions among child athletes rose sharply in recent years, a new study found, prompting a pediatricians' group to recommend schools and sports groups adopt stricter safety controls for young people.
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Bob Bradley will remain coach of the U.S. national team through the 2014 World Cup.
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The genteel world of cricket was engulfed in crisis as an alleged betting scandal prompted one of the biggest fraud inquiries in the game's history.
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Baseball great Roger Clemens entered a not-guilty plea Monday to charges of lying to Congress about whether he used steroids or human growth hormone.
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A little more than a year after Barcelona acquired Zlatan Ibrahimovic in a near record deal, the Spanish club is shipping the Swedish striker to AC Milan.
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Is there any place left for strategy in a game that is growing increasingly hard to predict? We like to think so.
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College football columnist Darren Everson sees Texas down, Wisconsin and their running back John Clay up and other surprises ahead for the coming season.
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As the opening FedEx Cup playoff auditions clubs, the PGA Tour wants history, skyline views—and parking.
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Follow the latest musings on Twitter from some of the biggest tennis stars, including the Williams sisters and Andy Roddick, during the U.S. Open with this interactive graphic.
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It's fine to have some fashion fun at the U.S. Open, but Rafael Nadal and others are taking it too far.
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Andy Roddick lost to Janko Tipsarevic, the Serb who earlier complained that he was ranked too low to receive transport from his hotel to the National Tennis Center.
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Syracuse, Rutgers, UConn, Army and Notre Dame are all trying to become the city's football team, convinced the answer is yes.
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Ralph Gardner learns at the U.S. Open that you should never interview a kid, much less a gaggle of them. Child actors and their parents have nothing on these preadolescents when it comes to craving the spotlight.
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In an otherwise irrelevant game that will feature almost none of the Jets starters, Santonio Holmes hopes to shine for the team's preseason finale against the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Victoria Azarenka blamed a mild concussion for her on-court collapse at the U.S. Open. A potential hurdle is removed from a Roger Federer-Rafael Nadal final. And Tiffany pairs with Team USA basketball.
Roddick’s Feet of Clay on HardcourtRoddick's figurative and Azarenka's literal falls in Flushing. Plus: Isner isn't just the guy from the marathon match; angst over Big Ten scheduling; and more.
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"Would love to see Earl crushed by a Masters' Hurricane, with a job, kids, a mortgage and a steel Bianchi with downtube shifters."
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Washington Nationals pitching phenom Stephen Strasburg is facing Tommy John surgery. Could this be the end, when he's hardly begun? Not likely.
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Indoor simulators are more sophisticated than ever, but they still have their limitations.
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The English Premier League is already off to a familiar look: Chelsea and Manchester United are out in front. What used to be a competitive league has become a great divide—the two powers and everyone else.
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When teams like the 49ers fail on the field, quality individuals tend to get undervalued.
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Among all the NFL games in the 2010 season, which begins next week, Buffalo is home to four of the five with the lowest-priced tickets, according to SeatGeek.com
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Of the 120 teams ranked in the Associated Press's preseason top 10 since 1998, 21—nearly two per season—finished completely outside the final top-25 poll.
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The Count: Why Team USA may be taking -- and missing -- too many midrange jumpers at the world basketball championships.
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It has been one long misadventure for Melanie Oudin since last year's U.S. Open, where she wowed American fans with fist pumps and daring winners during a run to the quarters.
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Forty years ago, at the 1970 U.S. Open, the now common tiebreaker was used for the first time at a Grand Slam event.
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Taiwan, a place with 14 million fewer people than California and only two gold medals in its 54-year Olympic history, has ruled the sports scene this year—relatively, of course.
MLB AL: TB Rays 4.7, TOR Blue Jays 4.5
MLB AL: OAK Athletics 4.4, NY Yankees 4.2
MLB NL: CIN Reds 5.3, MIL Brewers 5.2
Number of days of 90-degree-plus temperatures in New York during U.S. Opens from 2000 through 2009. All three days of this year's tournament have been 90 or higher.
Source: wunderground.com
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