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Who Is the World’s Highest Paid Athlete? [PICTURES]
Baseball, football and basketball player salaries keep rising, but a competitor outside of those popular team sports is the world’s highest paid athlete.
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11 Reasons Your Team Didn’t Make It to the NBA Finals
The NBA Finals are upon us and this basketball showdown signifies one thing: there’s only a few more months before the start of football season.
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5 Professional Sports Stars Who Voluntarily Left the Game — Only to Return [VIDEOS]
Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas is considering taking a leave of absence from the ice, and even wrote in a Facebook message on Saturday that “hockey’s just not that important right now.”
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What Teams Do You Want To See Duke It Out in the NBA Finals? — Sports Survey of the Day
The conference finals have kicked off in the NBA. Each of the four teams has potential to win a ring, but which match up do you want to see the most?
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NBA Rookie of the Year Goes Undercover at a Pickup Basketball Game [VIDEO]
NBA rookie of the year, Kyrie Irving, goes undercover at a pickup basketball game, dressed as the aging “Uncle Drew.”
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This Weekend in Sports: Preakness Stakes, UCL Soccer and NBA Playoffs
Another leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown, Europe’s biggest annual soccer event and the NBA and NHL playoffs highlight this weekend’s sports schedule:
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Blake Griffin Gets TRUCKED By Jason Smith BountyGate Style
In all our years of watching basketball, we don’t think we’ve ever seen a harder flagrant foul than the one Jason Smith doled out to Blake Griffin.
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10 NBA Coaches Controversially Pushed Out By Their Players
“Success in the NBA is more about the players, and less about the coach, than any league, pro or amateur, in U.S. sports,” wrote Gregg Doyel of CBS Sports in 1999. “More and more, superstars call the shots,” said Sports Illustrated’s five years prior. Each year that goes by seems to give the players more power and make coaches more vulnerable.
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Amazing Full Court Pass and Last Second Dunk [VIDEO]
Check out this video that was just posted to YouTube last night from a high school basketball game in Vinita, Okla. We're not sure if the video is at the end of the game, or just the end of a quarter, but it doesn't really matter!
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Will Ferrell Is the Best Bulls-Hornets Game Announcer Ever
Will Ferrell, last seen wondering the fields of North Platte, Nebraska, popped up at another unexpected locale Wednesday night.
The funnyman was in New Orleans filming ‘Dog Fight.’ So he decided to hop on over to the New Orleans Arena and do the intros for the Hornets-Chicago Bulls game.
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Dallas Mavericks to Receive Championship Rings Tonight
Tonight will be a special night for the Dallas Mavericks, who will receive their 2010-11 championship rings at the American Airlines Center.
The celebration could have been held on opening day of the season along with the raising of the championship banner, but this celebration was planned since J.J. Barea, a key reserve on the championship squad, will be returning to Dallas for the first time since signing a four-year contract with Minnesota.