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The Sports Revolution: And TWO!
Let me set the scene for you: You are playing the game of basketball, and you drive to the basket, and you are fouled on a layup attempt that you miss. You receive two free throws. The next play, the...
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The Sports Revolution: Fixing the All-Star Game
In preparation for this year’s Fall Classic, we asked Pierre Menard if he would be interested in revising his plans from last season on how to fix Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game. “Revise???”...
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The Sports Revolution: A Preseason that Counts
Only 8.5% of the way through its regular season, the NFL has already been battered by injuries. Several teams, specifically those that wear green, have already lost key players to season-ending...
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The Sports Revolution: To Halve Is To Have Not
Let me say first that, in general, I agree with my colleague’s assessment of the Ryder Cup. There is something so…so sporting about the event that I enjoy it very much, despite its reprehensible...
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The Sports Revolution: Saving the Division Series
Last year about this time, I laid out my plans for an entire postseason overhaul. This year, while standing by most of those innovative suggestions — the nine-game World Series, in particular — I want...
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The Sports Revolution: Simultaneous Overtime!
Let ESPN’s Brian Griese set the scene for you: “It’s almost like the TD was given; it’s all going to come down to the two-point conversion.” Let NPI’s Pierre Menard reset the scene for you: “Nothing...
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The Sports Revolution: Speeding Up Baseball
Let me set the scene for you: The Tigers and Rangers play a tight afternoon Game 2 that many do not see the end of, because they have turned instead to a mundane Monday Night Football contest between...
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The Sports Revolution: Fixing the Pro Bowl
Don’t play it. Filed under: Sports, The Sports Revolution
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The Sports Revolution: And-One Penalties
Let me set the scene for you: A quarterback launches a long pass down the sideline toward an emergingly open receiver. The defensive back, sensing what is about to occur, prevents a completion through...
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The Sports Revolution: The Division Tournament
Pierre as a young boy was a contrarian. He was the kind who favored The Plague over The Stranger, Beauvoir over Sartre, Henry over Zidane, the left rook’s pawn over the right rook’s pawn. Pierre as a...
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