Charles Hartley

Nadal's Dominance of French Turns Heads Towards Women's Draw

11:19 AM ET 06.08

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Take a wild guess which man will win this year's French Open tennis tournament. The first hundred guesses don't count. If you don't know the answer, you know nothing about tennis.
Rafael "Rafa" Nadal is your man. Yesterday he beat the world's best player, Novak Djokovic, in a five-setter.
Of course he did. This is the French Open. He has won this tournament more than a hundred times. Actually seven but it feels like hundreds.
No matter how many nagging knee injuries he has, no matter how many months he takes off between the French Open, no matter how many magazines he appears on the cover…

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Desperation, Fear Drive Baseball Players to Take Steroids

09:19 AM ET 06.06

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Imagine if you had invested your whole life playing baseball since the age of six. You didn't study all that much in high school because you were told by coaches and pro scouts that were good enough to get drafted, wouldn't have to go to college, and had a real chance of playing Major League Baseball with all the benefits of that especially making millions of dollars. If you made it to the Bigs and made all that money, you would be set for life. You could have a wife, kids, a relaxing life of retirement without having to work all that hard.
But you're discovering your first few years…

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The Best Hoops Player Who Never Played

09:34 AM ET 06.04

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Moose could shoot. He could score. He was an unstoppable basketball player despite being slight and only five foot ten. He once scored 68 points in a men's basketball league game. He averaged over 40 points per game that season. My buddies and I, whom Moose schooled all the time in hoops, would have somewhat serious conversations about whether he was better than Michael Jordan. That went going too far but not by much. It was hard to think of anyone besides Jordan more unstoppable and skilled as an offensive player than Moose. This was before LeBron James. LeBron is better than Moose and…

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