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Barbara Barker
Ayala giving Mets much-needed help - August 22, 2008 - If ever there was a night that proved that the Mets and Yankees are headed in opposite directions, Thursday night was it.
Jim Baumbach
Marat Safin's little sister a title contender - August 26, 2008 - To prove Marat Safin's name still carries a good amount of weight in the tennis world, all you need to do is look at Tuesday's schedule. Safin's first-round match was played on the headline court here - Arthur Ashe Stadium - which is an awfully big stage for an unseeded player.
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Ken Berger
Don't expect Dolan to part with Knicks or Rangers - August 17, 2008 - James Dolan has opened the floor to investors, allowing them the kind of public discourse with him that writers who cover his basketball team rarely get.
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Neil Best
CBS hoping to bank on Jets' Brett Favre bonanza - August 22, 2008 - That Michael Phelps thing went swimmingly for NBC, didn't it? Still, after a week, it was over.
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Erik Boland
Ann Liguori puts golf on Long Island radio - September 20, 2007 - It was not as if Ann Liguori needed something extra to do or some internal voice kept telling the veteran broadcaster there was a media venture she hadn't undertaken.
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Ken Davidoff
It wouldn't hurt Girardi to loosen up a little - August 28, 2008 - With last night's miserable 11-3 loss to the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees moved one step closer to this legacy-defining sentence:
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Bob Glauber
Can't hurt Giants just to give Strahan a call - August 25, 2008 - Michael Strahan answered my text message within minutes. Not a bad response time, considering he's vacationing in Europe, according to a close friend.
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Mark Herrmann
Tallgrass closing? Not according to the owners - August 28, 2008 - Rumors of Tallgrass' demise have been greatly exaggerated (apologies to Mark Twain).
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Johnette Howard
Reason to watch women other than Serena, Venus - August 27, 2008 - You could call this the first annual Adopt-a-Nobody plan. Or, kinder yet, five good reasons to reject that lazy but rampant talk that there's no women that's "interesting" or possessing any personality in this year's U.S. Open other than Venus and Serena Williams, who both - yawn - predictably pulverized their opponents in their opening-round matches yesterday:
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John Jeansonne
Politics has always played part in Olympic Games - August 6, 2008 - It would be a great leap forward if everyone simply would accept that the Olympics, by definition, mixes sports and politics. And that, 40 years after Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the leadup to Friday's Beijing Opening Ceremonies (8 a.m., New York time) already has compelled athletes and officials to consider appropriate acts of social awareness and pleas for the disenfranchised.
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Wallace Matthews
Bye-bye Willie, bye-bye ball! - August 28, 2008 - PHILADELPHIA
Steven Marcus
Nassau's Baldinger success on field and in booth - July 2, 2008 - Brian Baldinger never intended to become the goodwill ambassador of Nassau Community College football. The former NFL lineman and now popular Fox broadcaster had an ordinary beginning to what has become an extraordinary journey in football.
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Shaun Powell
Give father credit for Venus' Serena's longevity - August 28, 2008 - He will go down in tennis-dad history as an absolutely insane madman, which is to say Richard Williams always will be remembered as a genius.
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Anthony Rieber
Melky has a Manny moment - July 23, 2008 - Did you see what Melky Cabrera did during the Yankee Stadium roll call in the first inning on Tuesday night?
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Tom Schlichter
As summer ends, fishing habits must change - August 22, 2008 - Could you taste that hint of autumn approaching on the late-night breezes this week? As sure as big yellow buses will be chugging down the street within a fortnight, the fishing season will take on a fall flavor during the coming weeks.
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