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Great day for Japanese, women in pro baseball (San Francisco Chronicle)
Baseball fans are disillusioned, and here's why: Pumped up with money and medication, the sport has gotten ever bigger and badder - and more boring. The one thing that has always distinguished baseball is the feeling of history in the making. Each season,...
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ABA president Richard Caborn lashes out at medallists turning pro (Daily Mail)
Richard Caborn has hit out at Olympic medal-winning boxers James DeGale and Tony Jeffries and called for the professional game to be forced to compensate the sport's grass roots.
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Can a Gene Test Tell You Your Toddler’s Sport? (US News & World Report)
Even if it's possible to predict performance, it's probably not ideal to pick just one sport.
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Olympic champion DeGale turns pro (BBC News)
James DeGale signs a pro contract with Frank Warren and fires a parting shot at the Amateur Boxing Association of England.
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Angry Degale Turns Pro (Sporting Life via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Sport)
Olympic boxing champion James DeGale has turned pro and blasted his former amateur bosses.
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Olympic middleweight champion James DeGale turns pro (TSN)
LONDON - Olympic middleweight boxing champion James DeGale turned pro Tuesday, teaming up with promoter Frank Warren. The 22-year-old Briton beat Cuba's Emilio Correa in the Olympic final in Beijing in August.
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Sport (The West Australian)
Australian golfers Anna Rawson and Sarah Kemp made promising starts at the LPGA Tour final qualifying tournament. The pair fired opening one-under-par rounds of 71 at LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Wednesday to be tied 17th as Japan's Shiho Oyama set the early pace with a 64.
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Thai pro-government protesters force judges out of courthouse (Tulsa World)
4BANGKOK, Thailand — Hundreds of pro-government demonstrators swarmed around a court building Tuesday, forcing the relocation of judges who will rule on the fate of a Thai government beset by protests and a virtual shutdown of international air links.
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Cox: What message should we take from NHL's suspension of words? (ESPN)
Sean Avery was suspended indefinitely for crude off-the-ice comments about his ex. But when it comes to words and thoughts and morality in pro sports, whose rules apply? Who are we protecting, exactly?
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Niskayuna teen has all the right moves (Albany Times Union)
SCHENECTADY ? Don't dare tell Rebecca ''Becca'' Tishler ballroom dancing isn't a sport. For eight nonstop minutes, the Niskayuna high schooler sweated it out on a dance floor in Ohio with her partner, performing the waltz, tango, foxtrot and quick step, before winning the juniors in the world's largest ballroom dance competition. "I was so happy and so surprised," she said recently recalling ...
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