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Grading how each NFL team did at filling holes in the Draft. | Sports on Earth
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May 4, 2015. Which NFL teams used their Draft picks as effectively as they could have to fill their needs? USA TODAY Sport and Getty Images). The 2015 NFL draft is in the books. Even though we really won't know how good most of these players really are for three or four years, it's time to make assessments: Which teams used their picks as effectively as they could have to fill their needs? For this exercise we used the original draft order, minus any trades. 1 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Best Pick: David Cobb.
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This World Cup is elbowing into best-sports-event ever range. | Sports on Earth
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June 30, 2014. With the good palpitations of a great World Cup piling up, can you even remember the early melodrama and late disquiet of group play? RIO DE JANEIRO - At this point, seriously, can you even remember the early melodrama and late disquiet of Brazil-Croatia? Can you recall anything about the splendid Netherlands-Australia match? What about that Switzerland-Ecuador finish? Maybe you remember that during one taut match, Luis Suarez bit someone. OK, definitely you remember that. Something unexpe...
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Despite suspensions, Notre Dame still has reason for hope. | Sports on Earth
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August 23, 2014. Returning from his own suspension, QB Everett Golson will attempt to navigate Notre Dame past its most recent academic trouble. (USA TODAY Sports). As we get closer to college football's opening night on Aug. 28, all week we've been previewing the 2014 season, featuring 20 things to know about the. Today, we cover Notre Dame, as well as the best of the Group of Five and independents. It's hard not to panic. So, with a week until kickoff, where does Notre Dame stand? Why All Is Well.
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NFL Game Riffs: Week 1 | Sports on Earth
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September 6, 2013. NFL Game Riffs: Week 1. 4:25 pm ET Sunday, Fox. Line: 49ers by 4 ½. Packers defensive coordinator Dom Capers and his staff went back to college in the offseason. After bungling against Colin Kaepernick and the 49ers pistol offense in the playoffs like a bunch of 1970s punch-card programmers trying to hack the code to "Skyrim," they decided a little nontraditional education was necessary. So off they went to Texas A&M for a master's course in stopping the read option. 1 pm Sunday, CBS.
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Ranking Michael Jordan's 50 greatest moments. | Sports on Earth
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February 14, 2013. 50 for 50: Jordan's Greatest Hits. Michael Jordan turns 50 years old on Sunday. No matter how much his Charlotte Bobcats struggle, no matter how much he loses on the golf course, one thing is clear: His reputation as a basketball player will forever remain impeccable. Kobe Bryant has taken his best shot, and LeBron James may (. Eventually prove to be the superior player, but nobody will ever make as big of an impact on basketball as Jordan. 47 Kobe, meet Michael. 42 Jordan and the Drea...
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Why Barry Bonds is baseball's all-time best player. | Sports on Earth
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December 12, 2012. Best of All Time. Barry Bonds, shown here in 2002, was intentionally walked 688 times in his career - and pitchers that didn't walk him often regretted it. (Getty Images). Best Not greatest: best. No, it's not. Does it matter that it's not Ruth's fault? On the list post-integration. If we make a special exception and give him credit for those years, his career 119.8 WAR puts him between Aaron and Rodriguez. Not sure I disagree with that, either.). Do you like awards? Against him though...
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Preparing for the All-Star Game is anything but routine. | Sports on Earth
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July 15, 2014. A Break from Routine. The American League All-Stars enjoyed Monday night's Home Run Derby when teammate Yoenis Cespedes defended his title. (USA TODAY Sports). MINNEAPOLIS - Split open routine and out melts something refreshing. Something as small as taking a different way home can re-open closed doors of perception. But even those routines will be disturbed. Toronto's Mark Buehrle admitted he might not be able to get a long-toss in before his appearance, since he'll be coming out of t...
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What to watch in the new Premier League season. | Sports on Earth
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August 15, 2013. Guide to the English Premier League. Gareth Bale (Tottenham), Jack Wilshere (Arsenal), new Man United manager David Moyes and Fernandinho (Man City) headline the new EPL season. (Getty Images). Alas, the misnamed football-sans-feet is still a month away, but the football-with-feet starts this weekend, with a full slate of fairly uninteresting matches. The "You Have One Job" Group. Aston Villa, Cardiff City, Crystal Palace, Hull City, Newcastle United, Southampton, Stoke City, Sunderland.
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Want to stop the fiscal cliff from advancing? Cut welfare to sports. | Sports on Earth
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December 12, 2012. Let's Eliminate Sports Welfare. Perhaps you've heard the news: America is barreling toward a self-induced "fiscal cliff". Who's better, Barry Sanders or Emmitt Smith? Only with the world economy at stake - and yet each camp is ignoring an obvious way out. During the recent presidential race, Mitt Romney was pilloried for his surreptitiously recorded remarks. That "47 percent" of Americans are "dependent upon government," believe that they are "entitled to … you name it" and will ...
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Jeremy Barfield will try anything to get to the majors -- even pitching. | Sports on Earth
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May 1, 2014. Before last summer, Oakland A's minor-leaguer Jeremy Barfield hadn't thrown a pitch since high school. Can he master the position at the age of 25? It was late on a Friday night last July, and Jeremy Barfield, a corner outfielder for the Sacramento River Cats, was getting ready to celebrate his 25. Birthday when he was summoned into a postgame meeting with his manager, Steve Scarsone, and his hitting coach, Todd Steverson. Barfield steeled himself for bad news. Jeremy Barfield (right), with ...
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