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As the sports calendar turns from spring/summer to fall/winter, it is an appropriate time to reflect on one of the great stories in sports this year, that being Michael Block’s stunning closing holes to finish in the top 15 of the PGA Championship, thereby earning a return trip to next year’s tournament. Block ably personified […]
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The inaugural World Baseball Classic took place in 2006. In 2023 — as many 17-year-olds do — it came of age, capturing the attention of both baseball traditionalists and the general sports fan, while converting elite American-born players to the value of international play. Americans have always been slower than our foreign counterparts to revel […]
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Fans of baseball and of baseball history have had much to feast upon this MLB season. In particular, the American League MVP choice between Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge presents a fascinating debate for fans of old-school baseball, new-school baseball and unheard-of-before baseball. By focusing on Ohtani and Judge, I mean no disrespect to Albert […]
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One score and five years ago, the founders of SportsTravel brought forth a publication conceived from a passion for sports and dedicated to the proposition that sports-related travel is a worthy endeavor. As if I needed confirmation of that, the 25th anniversary of SportsTravel — which is also my 16th anniversary as a columnist — […]
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In the days since the passing of the legendary John Madden, well-deserved tributes and colorful stories have proliferated. It has been uplifting to read them all. But there may be one question that a younger generation — one that is familiar with Madden only as the namesake of the Madden NFL video game — is […]
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The Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics will be discussed and debated for years to come — whether they should have taken place at all, and the costs (in all respects) versus the benefits. The financial and health consequences of the Games are very real and will likely take a while to measure. However, going eight […]
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We survived for more than a year without sports — and more particularly, sporting events — as we used to know them. We first had to learn to live without any live sports at all. Then, largely with the help of the NBA, we became accustomed to watching live sports on TV from empty stadiums, […]
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On December 2, the No. 8-ranked Michigan State basketball team traveled to Durham, North Carolina, to play No. 6-ranked Duke at fan-less Cameron Indoor. Winless in his previous three games at Duke while coaching Michigan State, Tom Izzo and the Spartans came away with a 75-69 victory. Even though the venue was devoid of the […]
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I love sports, I enjoy travel and I enjoy traveling for sports. While I and other inveterate sports travelers endure this pandemic, I have been looking forward to a day when sports-related travel would again dot my calendar. However, in a serendipitous and mountain-coming-to-Muhammad moment, sports-related travel came to me. The announcement by Major League […]
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As of this writing, it has been a remarkable September for sports viewing. Somewhat sadly, it has not been the in-person variety that I and most readers of this magazine prefer, but rather the stay-at-home, make-the-most-of-it sports viewing that is consistent with our current mode of life. Nevertheless, we have been treated to, among other […]
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The SEC Football Championship Game will be held in Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium through at least 2031, an extension of the current contract that was set to expire in 2026.
Supporting the U.S. Olympic movement runs in the Belk family — the latest sign of which is in establishing the U.S. Performance Center in Charlotte as one of the biggest facilitators of Olympic dreams.
The Army Navy Country Club – Arlington in Virginia will host the 2024 Ping Junior Solheim Cup, @AJGAGolf has announced.
The @RoseBowlStadium has seen and hosted almost anything in the world of sports for a century. It was fitting then that last weekend it hosted the final game of the Pac-12 as we know it, a fitting sendoff for the conference so deeply linked to LA.
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