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Phil Taylor: Demong's historic gold a team effort
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- A great Nordic combined team requires speed, stamina, strategy and sacrifice. The U.S. squad can put a big check mark in all four categories. That was never more apparent...
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Phil Taylor: Record night proves to be snapshot of Ohno's entire career
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- If this was the last night of his Olympic career, let the record show that Anton Apolo Ohno's finale was in keeping with his career -- with his life, really. It was a...
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Phil Taylor: Summer of LeBron has league on hold
And so, we reach the endgame. With any luck, the last act of this seemingly interminable play will be the shortest. The prelude to the Great Free-Agent Summer of 2010, starring LeBron James, has been...
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Phil Taylor: Talent not enough: Heat face many obstacles in pursuit of 72-10...
It's obvious that the Miami Heat are talented enough to match or exceed the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls' NBA record of 72 wins in a season. The Heat's trio of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh could...
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Phil Taylor: Dr. Martin Luther King would have liked much of what has...
The anniversary of Martin Luther King's birthday has become an annual occasion to stop and take stock of race relations in America, to assess the progress and status of African-Americans as a group....
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Phil Taylor: Mavericks win ugly, shut down Thunder in Game 3
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Here's a thought: Let's pretend Game 3 of the Western Conference finals never happened. It just never came to pass, kind of like the Rapture. We can all reconvene on Monday night at...
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Phil Taylor: Offense could carry Mavericks to NBA title
I have a feeling about these Dallas Mavericks. I think it's finally their time. I know that's not the prevailing sentiment. The general consensus seems to be that the Miami Heat have finally figured...
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Phil Taylor: Rookie coach Jackson preaches change to hopeful Warriors
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Five minutes before the first practice of his NBA coaching career, Mark Jackson pulled out his phone in the coaches' locker room at the Golden State Warriors' practice facility and...
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Phil Taylor: Can Lin add to his legend? There's reason to believe the answer...
I missed on Jeremy Lin, too. And like the front offices and coaching staffs of the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets, I'm kicking myself for not realizing what was right under my nose. The...
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Phil Taylor: Grand moment of Santana's no-hitter worth wait for one Mets fan
How can I explain this? When it comes to no-hitters, the thing about being a Mets fan was that it always felt like everyone got to have a birthday except me. With the exception of the San Diego Padres,...
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Phil Taylor: Youth, inexperience on display as U.S. men's gymnastics team flops
LONDON -- Everywhere, there were signs of youth -- awkward smiles, sheepish shrugs, a certain wide-eyed attitude. This was after the U.S. men's gymnastics team -- a baby-faced group with big-boy dreams...
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Phil Taylor: Uchimura's run of gold has most competitors green with envy
LONDON -- Contrary to what others may tell you -- and tell you, and tell you -- Japanese gymnast Kohei Uchimura is not perfect.
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Phil Taylor: Uchimura, Leyva take different paths to success in all-around
LONDON -- This is about high bars -- the metaphorical one that a coolly dominant Japanese gymnast continued to set for his competitors in winning an Olympic gold medal, and the literal one that one of...
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Phil Taylor: Life-changing victory for Douglas
LONDON -- Now, it all changes. Gabby Douglas isn't just a talented teenager, flitting around the periphery of America's consciousness like, yes, a little squirrel, anymore. Now she's Golden Gabby,...
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Phil Taylor: With youthful joy, Franklin leads next generation of U.S. swimmers
LONDON -- Missy Franklin does not giggle. Let's be clear about that. Because she's 17, and exuberant, and a girl, there is the tendency to portray her as giggly, but she's not. Missy Franklin laughs, a...
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Phil Taylor: Richards-Ross ends climb to glory with long-awaited gold in 400
LONDON -- Most Olympic athletes dream of the medal stand, of gold around their neck and their country's flag raised to the heavens. Sanya Richards-Ross did not. She didn't let herself get that far. She...
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Phil Taylor: Lochte embraces celebrity status, looks forward to Rio in 2016
Now that his Olympics are done, the silly season has begun for swimmer Ryan Lochte. He sat on a podium at the Procter & Gamble Family Home on Sunday, his face lathered in shaving cream as part of a...
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Phil Taylor: No longer unbeatable, Walsh, May-Treanor still own the sand
LONDON -- With all due respect to the other teams who compete in beach volleyball for the United States, the American scene on the sand looks like this: there is the duo of Misty May-Treanor and Kerri...
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Phil Taylor: Win or lose, beach's most prolific pair set to call it quits...
LONDON -- It seems incongruous to say the least. In a very British setting, a short walk from the prime minister's residence at 10 Downing Street and close enough to Buckingham Palace that the public...
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Phil Taylor: For May-Treanor and Walsh, third straight gold is all about family
LONDON -- When it was over and the gold was theirs again, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh, so good together all these years, went their separate ways. After they hugged to celebrate their third...
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