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• Bill Conlin: Phillies should consider Hunsicker as GM

  - 2008-09-02

  W HEN I'M King of the World  . . . Gerry Hunsicker will be in play when Dave Montgomery launches the process of hiring general manager Pat Gillick's successor.If you think the remarkable blossoming of the serially moribund Tampa Bay Rays is due to the genius of 31-year-old Andrew Friedman,...

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• In the air.(Sports)

  - 2007-05-11

  Remotely interesting: NBC reported 13.8 million people tuned in to its Kentucky Derby coverage Saturday. ... HBO replays Floyd Mayweather's split-decision win over Oscar De La Hoya at 9 p.m. Saturday. A Sports Illustrated poll of the players on the PGA Tour found that...

  Tags: ESPN, Games, NBC Universal Inc., Philadelphia, Sports Illustrated

• Oh, how the tide has turned The optimism Blackhawks had created dissipates with recent struggles.(Sports)

  - 2007-01-18

  Byline: Tim Sassone Daily Herald Sports Writer What a difference a few weeks has made for the Blackhawks. With a victory over the Dallas Stars the day after Christmas, the Hawks improved to 9-3-3 under coach Denis Savard and were a mere 2...

  Tags: camera, Games, NHL, Sports Illustrated, team, TVs

• Heat guard Wade earns Sports Illustrated award

  - 2006-12-04

  NEW YORK AFP — The Miami Heat's dynamic guard Dwyane Wade has been named Sports Illustrated magazine's 2006 Sportsman of the Year. The weekly sports magazine announced Wade as the winner of its prestigious annual award Monday on its web site. He will receive the award December 14 at a...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Games, INTERNET, NBA, Sports Illustrated

• Beyond the top 50: Sports

  - 2005-12-08

  58 The Education of a Coach by David Halberstam (Hyperion, $24.95). Success story of Bill Belichick's 31 years in the NFL and his signature style of coaching. 105 Driven from Within by Michael Jordan, edited by Mark Vancil (Atria, $35). NBA champion and superstar extraordinaire shares his philosophy. ...

  Tags: Books, ESPN, Games, NFL, Sports Illustrated

• Aussie Jackson, Venus Williams among Sports Illustrated swimsuit stars

  - 2005-02-16

  NEW YORK AFP — Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue hit the American newsstands with Olympians such as Australian basketball hero Lauren Jackson being pictured along with American tennis star Venus Williams. Jackson, who posed nude in an Australian art magazine before the Athens Games, was pictured in a bikini...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Games, newsstand, Sports Illustrated, Williams

• Beyond the top 50: Sports books

  - 2004-12-02

  There is a bounty of sports books, partly spurred by the Boston Red Sox's World Series win : 60 Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger (Da Capo Press, $7.99). Football story of the Permian Panthers of Odessa, Texas; movie. 61 Faithful by Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King (Scribner,...

  Tags: Boston Red Sox, Games, Sports Illustrated

• Heiden, Eric Arthur

  - 2003-01-01

  Eric Arthur Heiden In 1980, American speed skater Eric Heiden (born 1958) became the first athlete ever to win five goldmedals in a single Olympics. After his record-setting performance, Heiden went on to compete on the cycling circuit and then became a doctor, enjoying a life of quiet obscurity. Success...

  Tags: athlete, ESPN, Games, medal, Sleep, Sports Illustrated, team, training, Washington Post Co.

• White, Reggie

  - 2003-01-01

  Reggie White For a decade and a half, Reggie White (1961–2004) dominated the National Football League as one of its most ferocious defensive players. White habitually struck terror into opposing offenses with his great strength, but he also possessed speed, stamina, and the ability to size up situations for maximum...

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• [ Sports ]

  - 2001-09-16

  This is like an episode of Seinfeld. This is a column about nothing. What is there? No major college football. No baseball. No NFL or PGA or NASCAR. What in the wide world of sports is there to write about? Nothing, thank goodness. ...

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