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Expanding the MLB Playoffs – is it natural evolution or inevitable devolution?
SCOTT JACOBS
In 1939 college hoops instituted what would become the NCAA tournament, an 8 team single elimination playoff, to crown a champion. There were 3 rounds and none of the games were televised. Why? Well, television didn’t exist at the tourney’s birth. Twelve years later, the tournament was expanded to 16. A few years later [...]
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Will this World Series ever end?
It’s the series that won’t end. Like the Energizer bunny it just keeps going and going and going…
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Tonight’s the night! No seriously, they’re going to finish this unprecedented suspended game five tonight. It’s going to happen. It’s going to start at 8:37, last nine innings (wouldn’t that be fitting if it went 15 [...]
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Phantastic Phillies one win away from ending William Penn’s curse
Tampa Bay looks over-matched, the Phillies are rolling, and I just don’t see a whole lot of reason right now for the Rays to be optimistic.
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Pick up a phone, find Terry Francona’s number and put it on speed-dial. For the duration of this less then exciting World Series, the Rays should keep [...]
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Game one goes to Philadelphia
Brad Lidge is once again lights out as the Phillies survive the Rays 3-2 in game one
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The Rays may be the comeback kids, but Brad Lidge is a totally different animal.
Lidge came out in the ninth, completely shut down Tampa Bay’s potent offense, and the Phillies walked out of game one with a [...]
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Tampa Bay all the way… to the World Series
Relive the final two and a half innings from a sports blogger’s point of view from an epic game seven
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Okay, so they’re not going to Disneyworld. Well, not yet at least, but Tampa Bay is going to the World Series after holding off the pesky World Champion Red Sox in a thrilling [...]
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ERays the Collapse: Tampa Bay does it!
The party’s not over yet for Tampa Bay’s improbable, unbelievable rise from worst to first in the American League
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Contact Disney, start sending them the scripts. This is officially a Hollywood story.
The Tampa Bay Rays knocked out the champs, and now they’re four wins away from being the champs.
Ten years of futility? [...]
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