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Why are we such a sports obsessed culture? What does our love for sports and athletes say about us? Those are just a couple of the questions Sports Sense attempts to address as it examines the games and the stars we watch and enjoy.

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Sports Sense A common sense look at sports and its place in our society

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Sports Sense · 2W ago

Indiana Pacers Finally Win a Playoff Series: Now They Must Win Respect

I doubt anyone gives the Pacers much of a chance against Miami’s Big Three of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. And as much I root for the Pacers I can’t in good conscience say they will win that series either. But what they can win, something previous Pacer teams won years ago, is RESPECT

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Sports Sense · 1M ago

Appreciating Pat Summitt: One of Sports’ Greatest Coaches Steps Down

Last summer Pat Summitt revealed that she is suffering from the early onset of Alzheimer’s and would not be coaching much longer. Despite the diagnosis, she coached the Lady Vols into yet another NCAA tournament this season, concluding with a spot in the Elite Eight - again. But success aside, it

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Sports Sense · 1M ago

Feeling Uneasy About Ozzie Guillen’s Apology and Suspension

Surely he should have known better than to say something that would inflame the justifiably sensitive and politically powerful Cuban-American community of Miami, many of whom were refugees, or whose parents and other relatives risked their lives to flee Castro’s repressive communist regime. How cou

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Sports Sense · 1M ago

Bawling Bubba Watson Takes the Masters

It was refreshing to watch someone else win The Masters this year. To be honest I never paid much attention to Bubba Watson before Sunday. I didn't know that Bubba, a Georgia Bulldog, who often practiced at Augusta, never had formal golf lessons, and no swing coach either. (I am so tired of hearing

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Sports Sense · 1M ago

NFL Football: A “Hurt” Sport

As bad as the on-going “bounty-gate” scandal has become, especially now with the release of the damning audio from the Saints locker room, I’m just not willing to act like it’s the worst thing that has ever happened in sports. I’m growing weary of the hypocrisy that “bounty-gate” has inspired.

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Sports Sense · 1M ago

Where is the Love for Kevin Love?

I am saying that this season, Kevin Love is the NBA’s most outstanding player. Period. And it shouldn’t be close. Love’s numbers speak for themselves.

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Sports Sense · 1M ago

Brittney Griner Leads Baylor to Championship

Let me offer some perspective about Brittney Griner’s impact on the women’s game. While there have been many great female players, a number of them tall, skilled and intimidating, who can actually throw down a dunk or two, like Lisa Leslie and Candace Parker among others, none have been the shutdow

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Sports Sense · 1M ago

Calipari’s Cats Take the Title

So why do I feel mildly nauseated by Kentucky winning, while at the same time admiring their skill at playing the game? Maybe it’s because I continue to be uncomfortable with Kentucky’s coach, John Calipari, a slick, smooth-talking, renegade who left two schools, Massachusetts and Memphis, amid sca

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Sports Sense · 2M ago

Triumphant: Tiger Woods Dominates Bay Hill

With Tiger Woods’ five shot victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill on Sunday, most of the golf world breathed an enormous sigh of relief, but certainly no more than Tiger himself, a man who has struggled mightily to regain his form and his confidence, ever since he crashed into that t

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Sports Sense · 2M ago

NFL Spring Cleaning: Change and Punishment

Peyton Manning is a Bronco. Bounty hunting is severely punished. And Tim Tebow takes Tebow-mania to the Big Apple. Just like that, in the span of only a few days, the very predictable NFL world has been turned inside-out.

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