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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Through guarantee games, like last year's contest between heavily-favored Florida State and Alabama State, lesser schools can turn huge losses into huge paydays.
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    Colleges Worry If Sporting Event Shutdowns Will Affect The Big Moneymaker: Football

    Apr 12, 2020
    The shutdown of sporting events due to the coronavirus pandemic has put athletic careers on hold and interrupted the flow of money that makes sports such a big business.
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    The entire writing and editing staff of Deadspin quit after being told to "stick to sports."
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    After Days Of Resignations, The Last Of The Deadspin Staff Has Quit

    Nov 01, 2019
    Staffers at the sports and culture website began to leave en masse earlier this week following a directive from executives to "stick to sports." The future of the site is up in the air.
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    There May Not Be Flying, But Quidditch Still Creates Magic

    Jun 03, 2017
    Quidditch leapt from the screen to real-life muggle fields in 2005. Now, it's grown big enough to have a major league, and the intensity and athleticism involved is anything but fictional.
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    Goats and Soda
    Sumer Abdelnasser (lower right) laughs at Nermine Abi Aad's joke during a practice break.
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    Egypt's All-Woman Roller Derby Team Is Skating Past Stereotypes

    Nov 05, 2016
    It's an aggressive game that requires full body contact like hip and shoulder checks. It's empowering. And that's exactly why these young Egyptian women love it.
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    The Two-Way
    Roger Federer called for the release of players' names who were implicated in match-fixing.
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    Allegations Of Tennis Match-Fixing Overshadow Australian Open

    Jan 19, 2016
    The BBC and BuzzFeed published an expose about match-fixing in tennis but did not name names of implicated players. Some people, including Roger Federer, have called for the release of names.
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    After The Riot: The Future Of Soccer In Las Vegas

    Jul 09, 2013
    Dan Lebowitz, executive director, Center for Sport in Society
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    Teen Archer

    May 28, 2012
    Christiana-Marie Wilburn is your typical teen: she likes to travel, and sometimes dyes her hair with green streaks.  But she also likes to carry around a bow and arrow.
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    Nevada Yesterdays: Squaw Valley Olympics, pt 2

    Feb 17, 2010
    The 1960 Winter Olympics was not only full of firsts for the Olympics, but for the state of Nevada. Senator Richard Bryan tells us more.
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    Olympic Skier

    Feb 17, 2010
    Stacey Cook is a University of Nevada, Reno alumna. She grew up in Northern California and she's training now at Mammoth Lakes.
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    Rugby Tournament

    Feb 15, 2010
    The biggest international sporting event of the year is being held in Las Vegas this weekend. It's the 2010 USA Rugby Sevens Tournament at Sam Boyd Stadium.
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    UNLV's New Athletic Director

    Feb 05, 2010
    UNLV has just hired Jim Livengood to try and revamp the Athletic Department. He talks about his plans for UNLV's teams and what it will take to get a winning season in football and even make it to the Final Four.
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    The Story of Poker

    Dec 07, 2009
    Author James McManus came to Las Vegas a few years ago to cover the World Series of Poker but got a real close-up view because he made the final table. He's back with a new book on poker and the meaning of American life.
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    Kurt Busch

    Dec 02, 2009
    In 2004, he was the champion and by 2005 he was the bad boy of NASCAR. We talk with NASCAR driver and one-time Las Vegan Kurt Busch about how he's changed and how NASCAR is dealing with diminished sponsorships.
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    Sportsbooks

    Nov 20, 2009
    Did they lose on Manny Pacquiao? Did they win on the Yankees? And how will they handle March Madness. Jay Rood from MGM Grand and Art Manteris from Station Casinos join us to talk about how the big moments in recent months have played out in the sportsbooks.
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    UNLV Fires Sanford

    Nov 16, 2009
    After another loss this weekend to the Air Force Academy, UNLV fired Football Coach Mike Sanford. Sanford had a five-year record of 15-43.
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    Andre Agassi

    Nov 14, 2009
    The tennis legend has co-authored his autobiography. In it, he speaks of drug use, the roller-coaster his career and personal life became in the 1990s and his eventual decision to retire in 2006.
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    The Big Fight, con't

    Nov 13, 2009
    We continue our conversation about this weekend's fight with AP Sports Columnist Tim Dahlberg.
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    The Big Fight

    Nov 13, 2009
    This weekend brings another big fight to the MGM Grand. Unlike many big fights that underwhelm the fans, Manny Pacquiao seems to have a huge crowd of followers.
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    UFC

    Nov 04, 2009
    The Ultimate Fighting Championship has been called barbaric and brutal but few have dare called it gay. Thaddeus Russell does just that and we talk to him about the big new sport of mixed martial arts and why he thinks it's well.
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    One Book Henderson

    Oct 16, 2009
    At least we can imagine what it's like to run a 26.2-mile marathon.
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    The Great Outdoors

    Oct 16, 2009
    Now it's cooling and it'll sure be getting colder. But that's no reason to sit around for six months with the central heating on high.
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    UFL

    Oct 14, 2009
    The Las Vegas Locomotives play their second and last game at home in Las Vegas tonight. We talk with United Football League Commissioner Michael Huyge about the plans for the league and whether it can survive as a second-tier league when it only has four teams.
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    Delaware Sports Betting

    Aug 27, 2009
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    United Football League Season Begins

    Aug 24, 2009
    It's not exactly one of the big four sports leagues but a new start-up football league, the UFL, has placed one of its four franchises in Southern Nevada. The Las Vegas Locomotives will be dressed in aquamarine, but former Giants Super Bowl coach Jim Fassel will be coaching the new team when the season begins October 8th.
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    Madness of March

    Apr 06, 2009
    Alan Jay Zaremba, author ... on his book that gives readers a front-row view of the betting culture that surrounds the frenzied first weekend of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
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