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USA Basketball – Who Needs to Replace Coach K
It’s been 7 years with 2 Olympic Gold Medals for Mike Krzyzewski, building back a somewhat torn down Dream Team franchise with Jerry Colangelo that suffered from a disappointing run before Coach K took the reigns. However, the 2012 London Olympics were the last time for him, and it’s likely that either Gregg Popovich or Doc Rivers will take over the position.
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Biggest American Cities With No Major Sports Teams
A large population in a city or a metro area doesn’t necessarily mean you get to have a team in the NBA, NHL, MLB or NFL. For example, places like Austin in Texas, quite close to one million people, have to settle for the Texas Longhorns in College Sports instead of a serious pro-team, although I’m not sure the people there see it that way.
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Europa League – All 16 Teams in the Knockout Stage
The Europa League moves on to its second knockout stage, or the round of 16 if you will, with four former European Champions still in the mix – Inter, Chelsea, Benfica and Steaua. The English Premier League and the Russian League have the most clubs left in the competition with 3 teams each.
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NBA Scorers a Dying Breed
If the pace and rate of scoring doesn’t make a drastic change in the next couple of months, despite the fantastic seasons of Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James, the NBA will have the fewest number of 20-point-per-game scorers in nearly 50 years.
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5 NFL Players Teams Should Use the Franchise Tag On
Deciding on using the franchise tag isn’t always a question of ability; it’s often about economics, or simply avoiding making a decision if possible. Joe Flacco, the biggest name in free agency this season, will probably be franchised by the Baltimore Ravens, who don’t want to pay him the kind of money his agent does. Michael Johnson, Jairus Byrd and Dwayne Bowe will join him in the tag list as well.
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Top Ten Europa League Scorers of All-Time
The return of the Europa League gives us a reason to dive into the history of the competition, that is still mostly known as the UEFA Cup and before that was called the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, until UEFA took over, and check out the top scorers of all-time in the competition and how much more Radamel Falcao needs to score in order to conquer the first place.
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Beyond Floyd Mayweather – How to Fix Boxing
For quite a while, the boxing world held its breath in anticipation of a Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao fight happening, like all the money that bout would generate could hide all the other, bigger problems the sport is facing. Now that there’s no chance of it every happening, maybe some can move on to deal with the more serious issues.
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Africa Cup of Nations – Which Clubs Sent the Most Players
As expected, the Africa Cup of Nations, 2013 edition, wasn’t filled with players from the leading European clubs. TP Mazembe of Congo DR sent the most players to the tournament, 10, 5 of them to their national team and 5 other to Zambia. Among the European clubs, Evian from France led the way with six players on Ghana, Congo, Burkina Faso and Tunisia.
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Miami Heat – How Amazing is LeBron James Right Now
Sometimes numbers don’t mean much, but when it comes to LeBron James, they might not be telling the whole story, and yet his shooting statistics this season and especially over the last few games are excellent indication of just how special his 10th NBA season is.
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Not Just Cristiano Ronaldo – Footballers Are Ordinary People
It’s easy to criticize someone like Cristiano Ronaldo, doing the job 90% of the world would dream of doing, dating a super model, getting paid huge amounts of money to do so (play football, not date) and then seemingly look ungrateful for it at times. People are people, whether they’re bankers, office workers or mega sport stars.