Deflections: The Unofficial Stat That Measures Success
The Louisville Cardinals are among the teams dominating at this year's men's Division 1 NCAA basketball tournament, which resumes Thursday night. The team credits harassing, active defense for its...
View ArticleWhy College Basketball So Celebrates The Semifinalists
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: The NCAA men's basketball tournament resumes tomorrow. Louisville plays Wichita State and Syracuse faces Michigan. On the women's side, it's Louisville again. They're...
View ArticleAlways In The Zone, Syracuse Is Hard To Beat
Any recreational league basketball team, any police athletic league squad and every group of 8-year-olds who wear the same uniform are, on the first or second day of practice, introduced to the 2-3...
View ArticleAdding Security Along Marathons Would Be Herculean Task
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: Now, the twin bombings at the Boston Marathon struck at a very special type of sporting event. Marathons have been called the most democratic of sports, with the fewest...
View ArticleNot Even Instant Replay Could Prevent These Bad Calls
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Major League Baseball has admitted that umpires have made some big mistakes in the last few days. On Wednesday, umpires ruled even after looking at television replays...
View ArticleWrestlers Grapple To Save Sport From Olympic Chopping Block
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: How often do you find Iran, Russia and the United States united behind a single message? Well, representatives from all three countries were in New York City yesterday...
View ArticleMiami Heat Force Game 7 In NBA Finals
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: It sure looked like the NBA season was coming to an end last night. World champions San Antonio Spurs - no, not so fast. The Miami Heat were not ready to give in. After a...
View ArticleMiami Wins Back-To-Back NBA Championships, James MVP
Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: And I'm Renee Montagne. By now, you might have heard, for the second straight year the Miami...
View ArticleWhat To Make Of Tiger Woods' Major-less Year
By the standard of normal golfing mortals, Tiger Woods has had an incredible summer. He's won multiple tournaments and millions of dollars in prize money. What he didn't do was win any of golf's four...
View ArticleQatar's Heat May Force World Cup Schedule Changes
Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The global governing body of soccer, or football as the rest of the world calls it, has a big decision to make next week. Some in that group, known as FIFA, are...
View ArticleYankees Say Goodbye To Rivera And His Cut Fastball
Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: OK, the baseball post-season is not quite settled. The Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay Rays will fight for the final playoff spot in a game tonight. The post-season of the...
View Article'Fetch Clay, Make Man': Ali, Fetchit And The 'Anchor Punch'
--- Muhammad Ali's first title defense, a first-round TKO of Sonny Liston in 1965, propelled Ali to the status of icon . In Ali's training camp before the fight was an icon from an earlier era: Lincoln...
View ArticleWhat To Watch For In The World Series
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: For the first time since 1999, the two teams with the best record in baseball will meet in the World Series. The Boston Red Sox...
View ArticleRed Sox Take One-Game Lead In World Series
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: The Boston Red Sox have taken a one game to none lead over St. Louis in the World Series, beating the Cardinals eight to one last night at Fenway Park. The evening...
View ArticleReversed Call Gives Sox Opening To Win World Series Game One
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The St. Louis Cardinals hope to come back against the Boston Red Sox in game two of the World Series tonight. In game one, well, just about nothing went right with the...
View ArticleAn Inside Look That Strips The Face Paint Off The NFL
Nicholas Dawidoff's Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football may be the best book I've ever read about football. It is certainly the most detailed account of the...
View ArticleNFL Thursday Matchup: 2 Losing Teams Will Still Get Ratings
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: It must be said the NFL game between the Houston Texans and the Jacksonville Jaguars tomorrow night, is not a marquee matchup. The Texans are two-and-10, the Jaguars...
View ArticleTwo Long-Time Braves And A Slugger Go To The Hall Of Fame
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: And I'm Robert Siegel. Pitchers Tom Glavine and Greg...
View ArticleCold Super Bowl Could Lead To More Turnovers
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This Sunday's Super Bowl features the number one defense, the Seattle Seahawks, against the number one offense, the Denver Broncos...
View Article5 Points To Help Simplify Sunday's Super Bowl
The chatter, hype and jargon in the weeks leading up to Sunday's Super Bowl XLVIII is more impenetrable than the Seahawk's secondary. Perhaps you've heard the Seattle Seahawks have a running back who...
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