Stories By John Altavilla
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Basketball
/ 3 weeks agoKing’s Ransom: Lakers Caught Up In Team Drama
Perhaps Jack Nicholson was expecting spontaneous combustion just like when Lebron James first joined Cleveland, then jumped to Miami and then...
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NFL
/ 3 weeks agoWinning The Title Is Never Boring For Patriots
Let’s begin with this: Super Bowl LIII had a much fizz as an open Pepsi after a night on the counter....
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MLB
/ 3 weeks agoPadres Prayer: Can They Sign Harper And Machado?
Here we are, two weeks from the start of Spring Training, and everyone with pine tar on their bats is losing...
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NFL
/ 3 weeks agoSuper Bowl Coaches Are Aged To Perfection
On the day Sean McVay was born – January 24, 1986 – Bill Belichick was already entrenched as defensive coordinator of...
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NBA
/ 3 weeks agoKissing Kanter: Fan Favorite Survives First Knick Purge
What does it say about an NBA team that until Thursday the most noteworthy thing that’s happened in the last month...
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NFL
/ 3 weeks agoGoodell Sorry Saints Won’t March Into Super Bowl
As he always does during Super Bowl week, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell switched to interactive mode Thursday to deliver his State...
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Hockey
/ 3 weeks agoPunch Line: Frederic Adds Pop To Bruins Bench
We would assume Bob and Gaye Frederic went through the normal routine raising their young hockey player. They woke up insanely...
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NFL
/ 3 weeks agoBravo Beard: Edelman Takes Another Super Bowl
It’s only when he takes his helmet off that the world can see what makes Julian Edelman truly unique. He has...
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Football
/ 4 weeks agoHalftime Is The Only Time Some Viewers Think Is Super
It’s interesting to note and likely disappointing for football fans to admit, that a healthy slice of Americana couldn’t give a...
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NBA
/ 4 weeks agoBird Of Pray: Pelicans Put In Tough Spot By Davis
It must be hard to be a Pelican in a world dominated by Warriors. That became abundantly clear Monday when Anthony...
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MLB
/ 4 weeks agoOttavino Is Sorry For Knocking The Babe Off The Plate
Adam Ottavino was born in Brooklyn and if you’re not familiar with the lay of that land, let’s just say there’s...
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NFL
/ 4 weeks agoWho Shot The Saints?: Vinovich And His Crew Remain Top Suspects
As you will see in a moment, Bill Vinovich can run, he can even appear in a vastly different arena undercover,...
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Golf
/ 4 weeks agoYou Can Stick A Pin In Golf’s Latest Rule Change
How wedded golf is to rules and traditions has always fascinated us. We understand it’s a sport of decorum and honor,...
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Culture
/ 4 weeks agoKid Scientist Proves Conclusively Tom Brady Is Filled With Hot Air
If you’ve ever had the chance to attend an elementary school science fair, you’re probably well-acquainted with what the brainpower of...
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Baseball
/ 4 weeks agoBatter Out: Lack Of Hitting Has MLB Looking At Its Rules
If Major League Baseball has proven anything over the last quarter century, it’s that if its rules committee gives teams an...
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NBA
/ 4 weeks agoGarden Party: Harden’s 61 Drives Another Stake Into The Knicks
Imagine being in Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night, sitting in the upper tier of the historic bowl with a Bernard...
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Baseball
/ 1 month agoEveryone Finally Agrees: Rivera Unanimously Elected To Hall Of Fame
To fully understand the significance of what has finally occurred, one needs to time travel to 1936 when the Baseball Hall...
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Olympics
/ 1 month agoAnother Injury Has Vonn’s Career Speeding Downhill
For those who don’t head to the mountains in the wintertime, downhill skiing is somebody else’s sport. The swooshing down the...
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Soccer
/ 1 month agoRonaldo settles tax fraud dispute and avoids jail with $22 million agreement
As professional athletes go, they don’t come more urbane then Christiano Ronaldo, perhaps the world’s greatest, and certainly its most self-absorbed,...
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Baseball
/ 1 month agoMLB Owners No Longer Willing To Play Ball When It Comes To Big Contracts
Last week, San Francisco Giants third baseman Evan Longoria took pen to paper – actually, a keystroke to Twitter – to...
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NFL
/ 1 month agoCrucial Saints drive and Super Bowl hopes snuffed out by blown pass interference call
In this extraordinary time, when technology takes us places man cannot imagine or see, the lack of a industrial remedy may...
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NFL
/ 1 month agoTom Brady defies critics, underdog status, and age in AFC championship game
If you follow sports, and we thank you for doing so, you know about the acronym GOAT, which stands for Greatest...
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Baseball
/ 1 month agoTop Free Agents Still Available, But The Yankees Have Been Busy Shoppers
The Philadelphia Phillies promise to bust every piggy bank at Citizens Bank Park to improve their team. There is corroborating evidence:...
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Football
/ 1 month agoNFL Championship Games: Will History Repeat Itself?
Pundits have played their version of NFL Powerball every year since it first became apparent in 2001 the New England Patriots...
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NBA
/ 1 month agoDissin’ Cousins? DeMarcus Says Loaded Warriors Most Hated In Sports
You must admit the frame of reference processed by DeMarcus Cousins is rather limited. He’s an NBA player so what does...