Tag Archives: sports
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9 Football Themed Costume Ideas For Your Super Bowl Party
With the opening kickoff to the biggest game on the sporting calendar now less than two weeks away, sports fans across the nation are busy organizing their Super Bowl XLVII parties. Despite the fairly dismal state of the economy, and to use a well known phrase from Jurassic Park, last year consumers “spared no expense”. [...]
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Hometown Heroes: 15 Pro Athletes Who Played For Their Hometown Teams
Yesterday TotalProSports told you about Brandon Crawford, the San Francisco Giants’ starting shortstop who, as it turns out, grew up in San Francisco rooting for the team with which he just won the World Series. And I don’t know about you, but I happen to think that is awesome. So I got to wondering: what [...]
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Put Your Fantasy Sports Knowledge To Good Use At FantasyFactor.com
Stop me if this sounds like a familiar story. You’ve spent weeks crafting the perfect draft strategy. You’ve studied all the injury charts, the updates, the rumors and match ups. When draft day arrives you execute your strategy to perfection, making ungodly value picks and getting all the sleepers that you were targeting. Excitement for [...]
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The 11 Dumbest Sports at the Summer Olympics
One of the best things about the Olympics is that you get to watch sports you don’t normally see. One of the worst things about the Olympics, however, is that some of these sports are just straight up dumb. What makes an Olympic sport dumb, you ask? Well, it could be any one of a [...]
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The Truth About Injuries In High School Sports (Infographic)
If I told you that boy’s football was the sport responsible for the most injuries among high school athletes, you probably wouldn’t be all that surprised. However, you may be somewhat shocked to hear that female cheerleading is responsible for the second most injuries among high school athletes, and the most among all female athletes [...]
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The 9 Weirdest Sports Stories Of 2011
Huh. After researching this piece, it would seem that 2011 wasn’t THAT weird a year for sports. Sure, there were a handful of really bizarre small stories, and a few somewhat bizarre big ones (Tebow, Paterno), but it seems as though athletes were on fairly decent behavior this year. What is the world coming to? [...]
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The 9 Most Shocking Sex Scandals In College Sports
In the wake of the Penn State scandal (see below), which has dominated the headlines, the question has been asked, “Is it the biggest scandal in college sports history?” Maybe. Probably. We’ll see. Many of the biggest scandals don’t compare, but there are a few that captured law enforcement and public attention on a scale [...]
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9 Hottest Winter Sports Girls
Well, it’s November, and there’s no basketball in the foreseeable future, so that means that the more esoteric winter sports will get more love than they normally do this time of year. It’s hard to keep up with winter sports athletes in non-Olympic years because there’s just not the exposure. Well, we strive to do [...]
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9 Greatest Sports Movie Heroes
Last week we brought you a list of the most sinister sports movie villains. So obviously, we had to come back this week and balance things out with a list of the greatest sports movie heroes. As you would expect, it’s a list of nobodies, underdogs, long-shots, and has-beens who fought through adversity and came [...]
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9 Can’t Miss Sports Conventions
For us hardcore sports nuts, it’s not just enough to watch the games on television. We’ve gotta read about it on the internet and listen to grown men argue about it on the radio. We’ve gotta buy the hat, the shirt, and the giant foam finger. When our team wins the championship and Sports Illustrated [...]
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9 Most Sinister Sports Movie Villains
In both sports and movies, while it’s always great to have someone to root for, it’s even better if you also have someone to root against. It’s only logical, therefore, that a lot of great sports movies would have truly great villains. Sure, sometimes these characters are over the top with their sinister plots and [...]
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9 Older Stadiums That Need To Go
For any huge sports fan, the stadium his or her team plays in, even if brand new, should be a of kind of shrine to legendary accomplishments, players, and memories. Unfortunately, some stadiums aren’t up to the task. Rather than serving as monuments to past achievements or future hopes, a handful of run-down stadiums suck [...]
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9 Sexiest Sports-Themed Commercials
In today’s piece, we’re going to show you a ton of commercials, and we’re not getting a dime. Why? On account of their sexiness. Sports commercials have long dabbled in the flash trade, which makes total sense, considering guys like sports and guys like pictures of naked girls. Well, most guys do. So we’ve assembled [...]
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The 9 Greatest Sports Podcasts
Face it: We are knee-deep in the digital age, and podcasts have fast become a viable way of getting your sports news regardless of geography or area of interest. The good news is anyone can do one. The bad news is anyone can do one. So here’s a brief guide to let you know a [...]
