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Bleacher Bits by Craig Purcell
- Has sports world gone to the dogs?
- Last week's column dealt with what I experience as a gaping hole in professional sports that comes around after the Super Bowl and before the baseball season throws out is first pitch. As evidenced by an event that found space on most of the popul... Full story
- A man without a season – until baseball
- Valentine's Day is fast approaching, guys (and you can thank me for reminding you the next time you see me), and unfortunately with the holiday created to celebrate love just around the corner, I'm going through a separation from a loved one. ... Full story
- Hockey crowd makes great save
- Ice hockey — like every other sport — has its share of statistics as well as its rules of play. To many born below the Great White North, also known as Canada, these rules concerning two-line passes, icing, boarding and such interfere wi... Full story
- A lesson in how to ride the bench
- Most of us have done it at one time or another. I rode the bench so much that me and my backside celebrated the move from wood to metal in the construction process. None of us really relished our time on the bench, especially when that kid we knew w... Full story
- Sending mixed messages to college athletes
- When the Ohio State Buckeyes take the field Tuesday for their Sugar Bowl match-up against the Arkansas Razorbacks, you can bet that OSU is going to put its best team on the field. Check that — don't "bet" on that, because wagering on the outco... Full story
- Listen to your inner coach
- While driving through Red Bluff on a cold, windy day a few weeks ago, I was protected from the elements by my nice warm car. That's when I thought I was somehow stumbling into the midst of an episode of the TV show "COPS." With my dashboard reading ... Full story
- Very few ‘perfect’ moments in sports
- There are baseball players who are said to posses "perfect swings," and there is a small fraternity of pitchers who have pitched "perfect games." Some basketball players have "perfect form," quarterbacks throw "perfect spirals," and gymnasts and ice ... Full story
- Boy sticks it to girls' field hockey
- A Pennsylvania high school boy is making quite a name for himself in hockey circles, having notched three-goal hat tricks in successive games to help his Wyoming Seminary team from Forty Fort, Pa. improve to 24-2. But some of the names used for this... Full story
- The word is dismal with a big "D"
- This year's NFL season began with all sorts of promise for me, as many preseason prognosticators favored my San Francisco 49ers to emerge as the top of the class of the NFL West. Sure, grading would be done on a curve since it is the weakest division... Full story
- Baseball loses its biggest 'spark'
- There are some figures who are great at playing baseball, but far fewer who made baseball a greater game by their involvement with it. George Lee Anderson is one of the latter, but you will probably recognize him by the nickname he embodied for his t... Full story
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