Seems like time for a list.
I’m pretty sure I’ve noted on this blog that I am among a rapidly shrinking fraction of Americans who have seen every Super Bowl. Either in person or on television.
Do the math. The first Super Bowl was played on January 15, 1967. Even if we cast a wide net and […]

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I can’t believe I’m writing a blog post with the “Kardashian” name in the headline. But this is about sports. Really.
A news item last week revealed that Kris Humphries is the most-disliked player in the NBA, according to recent surveys of the American public.
Fifty percent of all respondents identified Kris Humphries as an NBA […]

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A secret I now will reveal.
The final few days in Paris, when it had gotten rainy, and even darker … I was looking forward to getting back to Abu Dhabi. Seriously. My preference, there at the end, was to leave Paris … and go to Abu Dhabi. Yes. Seems a bit daft.
But we are entering […]

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*-Written from the apartment in Abu Dhabi, where the weather today was sunny and in the low 80s.
As usual, we will do this as a reverse countdown, “Late Show with David Letterman” style.

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Just when it looked safe — but premature — to get behind the Los Angeles Dodgers again … the club announced a promotional schedule for 2012 … with 10 bobblehead nights, led by a Sandy Koufax doll.
And yes, I would do something as lame as pay $50 for a bad seat to an unappealing game […]

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It is being reported tonight that Frank McCourt has agreed to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers. Thank goodness.
Of course, he will try to claim the team is worth more than $1 billion (he paid $421 million eight years ago), which could complicate matters. The Dodgers probably have appreciated in value, no thanks to the McCourts’ […]

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Like a lot of sports-oriented people, I have a numbers thing. I think about numerals a lot.
If I were to play a sport, I have preferred numbers. A different set for baseball, football, basketball. I will always have an opinion on a phone number, if I am given a choice. “This” number will be better […]

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This is a big topic that I’m going to write about without nearly enough research. Because to give it all the thought it deserves … I’d never get around to writing. I’d just disappear into the research.
I’ve been around to see five decades from beginning to end, and I’m going to rank them from best […]

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A notion popped into my head while writing a column for The National about how this looks like it could/should be the best season in the history of the UAE’s domestic soccer league:
An imbalance exists in many countries between the leagues those nations deserve … and the league that they have. In both directions: Too […]

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Sports movies are nearly all horrible. They are. Horrible. Not just bad. Awful.
I was reminded of this while watching the ridiculous sports movie named Wimbledon, starring Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst and apparently made by a bunch of people who have zero idea how a tennis tournament … or a tennis match … or Wimbledon […]

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