The Dope
Mark KreidlerDeconstructing the sports world one paragraph at a time, by national award-winning writer Mark Kreidler. Because context is king.
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Gambled With Players’ Safety. Lost.
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The five largest North American pro sports leagues acknowledged Tuesday that perhaps the most easily predicted outcome of their getting in bed with gambling sites (besides the one about the leagues getti...
It Happened While We Slept.
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We got the calls; they came before sunrise. It was the only way many of us on the West Coast would have known what was happening so early in the day. My editor at ESPN called and emailed and then called again,...
Can the NFL Champs Win Their Own Division?
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The Seattle Seahawks went 14-3 last season as a warmup to their Super Bowl run, but you don’t really have to do that. You can lose five or six times in the regular season and still wind up hoisting a tro...
Q&A: Dusty Baker.
It’s Friday. You made it. Well done you.
As Dusty Baker writes in his recently published memoir, Crossroads, “I love baseball because baseball is everything. It brings out everything in us, at one time or another, and it can teach u...
Say, That’s Some Poor Grifterism.
You have GOT to learn how to cheat
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