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hub.aa.com — The most feared man in the NFL isnt a dirty player, a perfectionist coach, or even a mercurial owner. IT'S ONE WEEK before the start of the NFL season, and the transactions column on a newspaper's sports page reads like an oversize obituary. The names of hundreds of players who didn't make the final cut for one of the 32 teams run together like a giant inkblot. Sometimes a notable name will stand out - a former Heisman Trophy winner, perhaps, or a veteran with a couple of Super Bowl rings.
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Can This Supplement Minimize Concussions?

Can This Supplement Minimize Concussions?

www.dmagazine.com — A Plano company thinks it has a formula to lessen the trauma of brain injuries. Running back Sammy Morris had a slim chance of making the New England Patriots' roster. His hope was that a compelling performance against the New York Giants in the Patriots' final preseason game of 2011 might secure him a spot. Less than five minutes into the game, however, Morris' audition came to a jarring end, by way of an unmarked, free-blitzing defender whom he tried to block at the last second.
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Raintree Golf Resort | Eric Affeldt | Ron Baker | Thomas Fazio | Florida

Raintree Golf Resort | Eric Affeldt | Ron Baker | Thomas Fazio | Florida

hub.aa.com — The golf course building boom of the 1990s is a distant memory, and the industrys suffering a major hangover caused by too many courses and too few golfers. Now, thousands of acres of fairways and greens are being plowed under. What happened? Photograph by Samuel Solomon. IT'S EARLY APRIL in Florida, the perfect time of year to get in a few rounds of golf. But Ron Baker is too busy to think about playing golf right now. Instead of filling out his scorecard, the general manager of Raintree Golf Resort in Pembroke Pines is printing out his résumé.
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NHL | Hockey | NBC | Gary Bettman | Arena Football League :: American Way Magazine

NHL | Hockey | NBC | Gary Bettman | Arena Football League :: American Way Magazine

hub.aa.com — The NHL's return to the ice brought fans back to the arenas in record numbers last season, but TV ratings continued to stagger. The question now is, can they turn this around? Illustration by Tim Bower. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is walking down a Manhattan street during his lunch break on a Monday afternoon in August when a stranger approaches him. "You're the commissioner, aren't you?" the man asks. "You know, during the lockout I was upset, but what you guys did last season, I want you to know I appreciate it." The man shakes the commissioner's hand and walks away.
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Curt Schilling | Baseball | Boston | Roger Clemens :: American Way Magazine

Curt Schilling | Baseball | Boston | Roger Clemens :: American Way Magazine

hub.aa.com — After nearly two decades in the majors, six All-Star Games, two World Series rings, and an MVP trophy, Curt Schilling has conquered Major League Baseball. So what's left for an encore? Even he doesn't know.Illustration by Todd Julie. He wrote his legacy on a cold October night in the Bronx. Sporting a bloody sock that will forever be tattooed on the heart of Red Sox Nation, he willed himself through the most formidable lineup in baseball and lifted a group of self-proclaimed idiots over the "evil empire" of the New York Yankees.
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What the Oklahoma City Thunder Really Mean to Oklahomans

What the Oklahoma City Thunder Really Mean to Oklahomans

sports.yahoo.com — Oklahoma is the home of the world's first parking meter. I know this because a billboard about an hour north of the Texas-Oklahoma border apparently wants me to know this. Having grown up in Oklahoma, though, I'm fully aware that a little history nugget like being the first to charge people for a 300 square-foot parking space is kind of a big deal in the Sooner State. Right up there with (at one point) housing the largest free-standing McDonald's and sicking Hanson on you. But now there's the Oklahoma City Thunder, which in four years since coming over from Seattle has become the state's signature point of relevance.
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How an HD Surveillance Camera the Size of a Golf Ball Was Born

How an HD Surveillance Camera the Size of a Golf Ball Was Born

studioatgawker.kinja.com — Sina Afrooze didn't plan on developing an HD Micro Dome camera that could fit in the palm of your hand. Afrooze is the Director of Device Development at Avigilon, a surveillance software and equipment company. His team of design engineers were looking to create something affordable and innovative within the HD realm, but, in typical engineer obsession (I mean, fashion), the construction process was akin to a songwriter spending countless hours perfecting a single verse...and having it take on a slightly unexpected (but very catchy) tune. "Probably the most enjoyable part of this process was finding innovative ways of constructing this camera," explained Afrooze.
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The Day Football Dies

The Day Football Dies

sportslead.net — John Moffitt walked away from the NFL the other day. He wasn't having any fun. The threat of long-term brain damage after repeatedly banging your head against 300-pound men can do that to one's disposition. It appears Mr. Moffitt didn't subscribe to the "football is life" mantra of the NFL, so he walked away from the remainder of his $625K salary this year and the $750K he was set to make in 2014. If you're going to end up a catatonic mess in your 40s you should at least enjoy getting there, right?
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The High Price of a National Championship in Louisville

The High Price of a National Championship in Louisville

sportslead.net — Karen Cunagin Sypher is no saint. The middle-aged mother of five sits in a Florida State Penitentiary serving seven years for attempting to extort millions out of a legendary college basketball coach in a town where basketball is judge, jury and executioner. Blonde hair and blue eyes can get a woman far in the world of luring prominent sports figures into seedy affairs, but even physical beauty has its limits. Greed is a perilous road to travel. Last Monday night, the Louisville Cardinals and Michigan Wolverines staged a college basketball championship for the ages in Atlanta.
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One Pitch

One Pitch

sportslead.net — Gideon had his trumpet, and an entire Midianite army was destroyed at the hands of God. Mariano Rivera has his cutter, and an entire era of baseball was dominated by the closer of the New York Yankees. To hear Mariano Rivera explain it seems simple enough, even if it flies in the face of pure logic. His cut fastball- perhaps the single greatest pitch in the history of baseball -is as he calls it "a gift from God" given to him during a routine pitch-and-catch session with then-Yankee pitcher Ramiro Mendoza 16 years ago: "No one taught me that pitch," he explains.
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The unfortunate occurrence of Mizzou and the case of old man football

The unfortunate occurrence of Mizzou and the case of old man football

sportslead.net — So it turns out Sheldon Richardson was right. Georgia does play old man football. As in that type of gimmick-free football that grinds an opponent's will into exhaustion over a four-quarter span- emphasis on the fourth quarter. As in that brand of football the older Big Guns play the following day in New England and Chicago and Pittsburgh. What a scene of delusional grandeur it was in Columbia last Saturday. In hindsight, Mizzou fans should probably thank Jarvis Jones for serving up a healthy dose of truth serum in the fourth quarter.
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Silence U.

Silence U.

sportslead.net — Lizzy Seeberg has a voice. It's possible you haven't heard it yet because there are those who went to great lengths to make sure you never do, but Lizzy Seeberg has a voice and it matters. In light of the recent sexual assault accusation surrounding Florida State's Heisman-hopeful quarterback Jameis Winston, perhaps Lizzy Seeberg's voice might serve as a sobering wake-up call to those who so willingly sell their souls to the brand name of their favorite sports teams, regardless of the detriment their idolatry may place on other people.
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How Ryan Perrilloux disappeared completely

How Ryan Perrilloux disappeared completely

www.sbnation.com — The former No. 1 high school dual-threat quarterback recruit in the nation is sitting with his mom on the front porch of a little yellow house on Bluebird Street in LaPlace, La. When a nearby train passes its way south toward New Orleans, it sends the living room décor into a 15-second convulsion. Ryan Perrilloux is about 30 pounds thinner than I remember him looking at LSU. "This is my mom's house," he tells me. "This is where I grew up, but I live in Alabama with my girlfriend and my two daughters now." Perrilloux sits on a brown leather sofa in the living room.
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How Ryan Perrilloux disappeared completely

How Ryan Perrilloux disappeared completely

www.sbnation.com — The former No. 1 high school dual-threat quarterback recruit in the nation is sitting with his mom on the front porch of a little yellow house on Bluebird Street in LaPlace, La. When a nearby train passes its way south toward New Orleans, it sends the living room décor into a 15-second convulsion. Ryan Perrilloux is about 30 pounds thinner than I remember him looking at LSU. "This is my mom's house," he tells me. "This is where I grew up, but I live in Alabama with my girlfriend and my two daughters now." Perrilloux sits on a brown leather sofa in the living room.
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