Budd Bailey
Content by Budd Bailey
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A sensational 1973 tennis match is the centerpiece of Selena Roberts' book, A Necessary Spectacle: Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs and the Tennis Match That Leveled the Game, a smart review of
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Don Haskins only coached in one Final Four, but it was arguably the most important such appearance in history.
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How would you like to have lunch with Red Auerbach, one of legendary figures in basketball history, once a week, week after week?
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It's easy to argue that the rise of the NCAA basketball tournament, the Final Four in particular, is one of the great sports stories of the past 65 years.
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College football fans can exhale now. They've made it through another off-season. The beginning of autumn means that teams are back on the field and fans are back in their seats.
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College football fans can exhale now. They've made it through another off-season. The beginning of autumn means that teams are back on the field and fans are back in their seats.
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Celebrating basketball's past and future The life of a legend Providence, Rhode Island, sports columnist Bill Reynolds has written a biography of the man who essentially started "new school" bas
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Celebrating basketball's past and future Real old school Cousy's style of play arguably led to a string of great players, including Julius Erving, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan, as "new schoo
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Prolific sportswriter John Feinstein is back with Last Dance: Behind the Scenes at the Final Four.
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Here's a book that will be absolutely, positively loved in one state and hated and reviled in an adjoining state.
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Many political figures have spent the last few years seeing how often they can show their support for the concept of family values as if anyone is against family values.
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The wait is killing us. Basketball fans want to know in some cases need to know if Michael Jordan has taken his final shot as a player in the National Basketball Association.
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Get in the swing of it The Masters golf tournament just isn't fair . . . to its viewers on television. Picture the typical rabid golfer who lives in the Northeast or Midwest. It's April.
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Get in the swing of it The Masters golf tournament just isn't fair . . . to its viewers on television. Picture the typical rabid golfer who lives in the Northeast or Midwest. It's April.
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It's easy to tell that the Presidential campaign for the 2000 election is starting to heat up just visit the local bookstore.
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Roger Kahn on boxing? It just doesn't sound right.
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Listen up, sports fans Joe Garner is the author/compiler of We Interrupt This Broadcast, a popular collection of audio highlights with accompanying text from some of the biggest news stories in t
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Former heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston's life was one big question mark.
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on Wertheim has picked the absolutely perfect time to write a book about a year on the women's professional tennis tour. He's done a fine job of it, too.
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Sports fans couldn't help but notice ESPN's 25th anniversary this year; there was enough programming about it on the network's various television outlets (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, etc.) to star
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Bob Knight is the subject of a fine biography by Steve Delsohn and Mark Heisler, Bob Knight: An Unauthorized Biography.
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In hindsight, it almost seems ridiculous. The best-loved American sporting moment of the 20th century wasn't a Super Bowl, a World Series or a basketball championship.
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Pat Summerall was playing catch-up from the day he was born. Summerall: On and Off the Air is the veteran broadcaster's almost painfully honest look at a life full of ups and downs.
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John Feinstein takes the unusual technique of starting The Last Amateurs with a description of the last game played in a year in the life of college basketball's Patriot League.
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