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John Feinstein Blog: No One Is Neutral When It Comes To Tiger Woods
If you ever go on The Golf Channel website you will notice that next to each headline is a number. It tells you how many people have commented on that particular story. Without fail, the number next to...
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John Feinstein Blog: Sports — For Better And Very Much For Worse — Have...
The phrase, ‘nine-eleven,’ has now been a part of our lexicon for 12 years. There isn’t anyone who doesn’t remember exactly where they were that morning, what they were doing and how they felt when...
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John Feinstein Blog: ‘The NCAA Is Going Down In Flames’
There are plenty of people in sports who just don’t get it. Alex Rodriguez is never going to figure out that the entire world views him as a fraud. Johnny Manziel—who at least has the excuse of only...
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John Feinstein Blog: ‘I’m A Krzyzewski Guy’
Mike Krzyzewski was given another honor on Tuesday night in a career filled with honors. At a dinner held at one of Washington D.C.’s most famous hotels — the Omni-Shoreham — he was presented with the...
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John Feinstein Blog: Michael Jordan Makes It Hard To Want To ‘Be Like Mike’
Michael Jordan was in the news the other day — sort of. He wasn’t doing anything to improve the fortunes of the truly bad NBA basketball team he owns and he wasn’t announcing the opening of a school...
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John Feinstein Blog: One-And-Done College Basketball Players Aren’t...
This past summer, my friend Dick (Hoops) Weiss, the Hall-of-Fame basketball writer, called one afternoon to let me know he was going to be in Washington the following weekend to attend a three-day...
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John Feinstein Blog: Redskins’ Team Name Must Go Away
Dan Snyder can huff and puff from here to eternity about keeping his team’s nickname. It doesn’t matter. Sooner or later his arrogant house of cards is going to be blown down. Maybe Snyder can rename...
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John Feinstein Blog: Jonathan Martin Will Be Incorrectly Labeled For Being Brave
The Richie Incognito-Jonathan Martin saga is an ugly tale of locker room culture. Although it is extreme — most notably the horrific voice mail left by Incognito for Martin — this is not a unique story...
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John Feinstein Blog: College Basketball No Longer Special Thanks To...
The hype-masters were out in force on Tuesday night in Chicago. If you heard about how “special,” this season’s college basketball freshman class was once, you heard about it 100 times. Different...
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John Feinstein Blog: NFL Officials Need To Improve Explanations
Once upon a time, the most difficult sport to officiate was basketball. The speed of the game, the size of the players, the fact that the court is such a contained space, made it almost impossible for...
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John Feinstein Blog: The Truth Hurts For Ohio State
Apparently, I made a big mistake this week: I made Ohio State fans angry — twice. First, I said their beloved football team does not — as of this moment — deserve a spot in the BCS national...
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John Feinstein Blog: It’s Too Bad Owners Can’t Be Fired
We all know that coaches get fired. Less often, general managers get fired. Sadly, owners never get fired. It’s too bad there isn’t a way to change that. Perhaps no one in sports history has ever...
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John Feinstein Blog: How To Fix College Football And Basketball
Let’s all be honest here for a moment: Most of us are happy to have the holidays behind us. It isn’t that there aren’t good things — great things — about Christmas/Chanukkah/Kwanza and...
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John Feinstein Blog: Tiger Woods Didn’t Deserve Player Of The Year
I don’t like Tiger Woods. I have never made any bones about that fact. For more than 17 years now, I have watched him treat people with disdain, whether they are autograph seekers, members of the media...
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John Feinstein Blog: Be Appreciative Of The Tom Brady-Bill Belichick Era
Sunday afternoon in the AFC championship game. The Broncos are playing at home, they NEED to win — or, more accurately Peyton Manning NEEDS to win — and they are probably the better team. If that...
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John Feinstein Blog: Brent Musburger Isn’t Being Pushed Aside Because Of...
Apparently ESPN has decided that Brent Musburger’s time is up. His contract expires this summer and, if you believe all the media reports swirling about, he’s going to be pushed aside because Chris...
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John Feinstein Blog: ‘Thug’ Label For Black NFL Players Must End
The simplest dictionary definition of the word thug is very direct: A criminal. Criminals, as we all know, come in many forms. They can be five guys in an alley who beat you up and take your wallet....
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John Feinstein Blog: Redskins Name Will Change Despite Daniel Snyder’s Arrogance
Here’s the problem with being very rich and not very smart: No one is going to tell you that you aren’t smart — and, for the record, being in the right place at the right time in the business world and...
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John Feinstein Blog: The Time Has Come For Fans To Be Held Accountable
Bob Bowlsby, the commissioner of the Big 12 Conference, made it crystal clear on Sunday that a player going into the stands and shoving a fan would not be tolerated. Less than 24 hours after Oklahoma...
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John Feinstein Blog: Catastrophe On Ice For Russia
The Russian hockey team’s 3-1 loss to Finland on Wednesday morning in the quarterfinals of the Olympic hockey tournament in no way resembles the fabled Miracle on Ice that took place in Lake Placid 34...
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