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Chelsea’s £50m striker has fallen prey to the malaise that every sportsman dreads: a catastrophic and inexplicable loss of form. But why does this happen to top athletes and how can they recover?
Gary Carter, the slugging catcher known as Kid for the sheer joy he took in playing baseball, who entered the Hall of Fame as a Montreal Expo but who most famously helped propel the Mets to their dramatic 1986 World Series championship, died Thursday in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 57. The cause was brain cancer, which had been diagnosed last May.
absolutely nobody saw this coming. Lin was cut during the pre-season by the Golden State Warriors, and then again by the Houston Rockets, one of the more statistically savvy teams in the league. Lin had been undrafted out of college
I mean, he has an 82 . . . quarterback rating throughout his career. You know, he's had five of his eight seasons where he has thrown 16 interceptions or more. His completion percentage on his career is 58 percent. To me, those aren't Hall of Fame numbers
they've drawn distinct lines in the sand when it comes to the punishing grind of the men's tour. Nadal, fearing his body is approaching its expiration date, wants it shortened. Federer, that model of fitness and longevity, sees no need for change -- and he probably speaks for the majority.
Joe Paterno died of lung cancer surrounded by family members yesterday, just over two months after he was fired as Pennsylvania State University’s football coach, ending a record-setting 46-year run in which he collected 409 wins and two national championships. He was 85.
Burke died at the age of 29 in hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, after tearing the artery that supplies blood to the brainstem during a training run in the superpipe at a personal sponsor event at the Park City Mountain resort.
Court records indicate that O.J. Simpson is facing foreclosure on his Miami home while he is in prison in Nevada.
football's tragic flaw is that it inflicts concussions on its players with devastating frequency. Although estimates vary, several studies suggest that up to 15 percent of football players suffer a mild traumatic brain injury during the season. In fact, the chances of getting a concussion while playing high school football are approximately three times higher than the second most dangerous sport, which is girls' soccer.
Awarded the title of one of 2009s 25 Fittest Guys in the World by Mens Fitness Magazine, Rich is an elite-level amateur ultra-distance endurance athlete [and a man I knew back in high school]
England soccer captain John Terry will face criminal charges after a police probe into a complaint he racially abused Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand during an Oct. 23 Premier League match, prosecutors said today.
"It is interesting that Twitter chose to settle, given that the suit itself bordered on the absurd. The account in question had just 3 updates and 4 followers, and was very clearly marked as a parody."
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