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Twenty-four hours a day in every city in America you can hear shock jock radio types screaming their outrage at the latest sports scandal and the din has become loud and steady. Diana Nyad on the other hand is thirsting for the poetry the sociology the philosophy of sports. On The Score she tells poignantly inspirational stories covers the broad spectrum of characters who play parts in the sports world and lifts listeners to feel the same passion for sports that she has.
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A Drug-Free Beijing?
from KCRW's The Score on July 24, 2008
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I've often wondered how former Olympic athletes feel right about this time, on the eve of yet another Olympic Games. Do they wallow in nostalgia, national anthems taking them back to distant memories of zeal and triumph? What about the ones who underperformed? Do they anguish every four years, reliving what could have, should have, would have been when their one and only time was upon them?
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Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?
from KCRW's The Score on July 17, 2008
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One of sport's hallowed temples, one of America's cultural cathedrals, showcased gloriously at this week's All-Star classic, is closing down at the end of the season. I'm not a die-hard Yankee fan. Not like my friend Arlene who will suffer through every at-bat, every double play, from this time of the season forward, literally unable to leave the house if her Bronx Bombers have a crucial loss. I'm just one of millions who revere the history and the magical moments, Lou Gehrig's farewell and all, of Yankee Stadium. I'm just one of millions who has her own small, personal story of Yankee Stadium to tell...
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World Class over 40
from KCRW's The Score on July 10, 2008
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The heartbreak of world-class sports is that an athlete retires while she's still young, oftentimes never to excel or find such passion again. And yet a 41-year old promises to be the darling of the Beijing Games...
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Babashoff et al
from KCRW's The Score on July 03, 2008
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Watching the Swimming Olympic Trials this week is on one hand inspiring, seeing world records fall, anticipating the excitement of following these athletes through to their dreams in China---understanding the many hours and days and years of discipline these athletes have put in. Just to make the final eight in any given Trials event takes special talent, extraordinary sacrifice. But it unnerves me when the gun goes off, knowing that after a mere minute or two of supreme physical and mental effort, after a long decade of dedication, only two will go to Beijing. The others, after all those laps, all those 5am workouts, all those lofty dreams, will go on to the rest of their lives...
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Trials Pressure
from KCRW's The Score on June 26, 2008
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The Olympics are a mere six weeks away and athletes all over the world are in their final training stages, heading toward the tricky taper period so they can time their peak just right...
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Kobe No Michael Jordan
from KCRW's The Score on June 19, 2008
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Going into the Final Championship series against the Celtics, Kobe Bryant was compared often to Michael Jordan. Kobe, the NBA's regular season MVP, the greatest athlete since the great MJ. Now that the Celtics have whooped the Lakers for those NBA Championship rings, it is abundantly apparent that Kobe is in fact no Jordan...
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Lakers-Celtics, Take 3
from KCRW's The Score on June 05, 2008
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It never makes sense to me when analysis of an upcoming game or series includes the records of the teams from bygone eras. If the Colts and the Packers face off, for instance, analysts go back decades and talk about how the Baltimore Colts fared against Green Bay so long ago that today's Indianapolis Colts find the conversation irrelevant...
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MLB Instant Replay
from KCRW's The Score on May 29, 2008
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Major League Baseball is considering instant replay. Commissioner Bud Selig says he's open to the concept. He has put it "under advisement." Why "under advisement?" Why not hammer it down and make it official…as of tomorrow?..
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Danica, the Real Deal
from KCRW's The Score on May 22, 2008
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It's been 31 years since the first woman driver started the most famous of all car races, the Indianapolis 500. It was an historic and also poetic moment. I remember it well. Memorial Day weekend, 1977. The starter's usual "Gentlemen, start your engines" was changed for Janet Guthrie, who sat behind her wheel in the line-up in the grid. "In the company of the first lady to race the Indianapolis 500, gentlemen, start your engines!" Guthrie had three Indy starts, in the end, and wound up with a ninth-place as her best finish at the Brickyard. You would think with the 31 years of women's progress since then that women would be old news at Indy. Women are wrestling and boxing and playing professional football. But in the pits of Indy racing, women are still earning their stripes...
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Danica, the Real Deal
from KCRW's The Score on May 22, 2008
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It's been 31 years since the first woman driver started the most famous of all car races, the Indianapolis 500. It was an historic and also poetic moment. I remember it well. Memorial Day weekend, 1977. The starter's usual "Gentlemen, start your engines" was changed for Janet Guthrie, who sat behind her wheel in the line-up in the grid. "In the company of the first lady to race the Indianapolis 500, gentlemen, start your engines!" Guthrie had three Indy starts, in the end, and wound up with a ninth-place as her best finish at the Brickyard. You would think with the 31 years of women's progress since then that women would be old news at Indy. Women are wrestling and boxing and playing professional football. But in the pits of Indy racing, women are still earning their stripes...
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Annika
from KCRW's The Score on May 15, 2008
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One of the great athletes of our time announced her retirement this week. Swedish born, now Florida resident Annika Sorenstam, will play out the rest of this season and then step away from the game she has dominated for more than a decade. Well, she'll actually still be in the thick of the game with her businesses of designing courses, branding clothing, and running academies, but she's hanging up her competitive cleats...
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Annika
from KCRW's The Score on May 15, 2008
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One of the great athletes of our time announced her retirement this week. Swedish born, now Florida resident Annika Sorenstam, will play out the rest of this season and then step away from the game she has dominated for more than a decade. Well, she'll actually still be in the thick of the game with her businesses of designing courses, branding clothing, and running academies, but she's hanging up her competitive cleats...
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Eight Belles: Tragic Lesson
from KCRW's The Score on May 08, 2008
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I've often wondered if the thoroughbred left to Nature, left to run like the wind across the hills of Big Sky Montana with wild Mustang cousins, is as fragile as the thoroughbreds lined up at the nation's starting gates. It's an absurd question in that thoroughbreds don't run wild in Nature. They are genetically-engineered marvels, bred for two centuries for speed….and for our wagering pleasure...
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Eight Belles: Tragic Lesson
from KCRW's The Score on May 08, 2008
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I've often wondered if the thoroughbred left to Nature, left to run like the wind across the hills of Big Sky Montana with wild Mustang cousins, is as fragile as the thoroughbreds lined up at the nation's starting gates. It's an absurd question in that thoroughbreds don't run wild in Nature. They are genetically-engineered marvels, bred for two centuries for speed….and for our wagering pleasure...
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Pistorius Not Able
from KCRW's The Score on May 01, 2008
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Research and Development divisions throughout the world of sports are pushing the technology envelope to make athletes more aerodynamic, to lessen impact on tumbling floors, to increase power in racquets. With 100 days to go before the Beijing Olympics, the biggest story to date has been the new ultra-streamlined swimsuits that have helped swimmers break an uncommon number of world records over the first few months of this year. It is the ultimate irony, then, that one athlete has been banned from this summer's Olympic Games because his equipment is evidently too technologically evolved. The irony comes with the fact that this athlete is physically disabled…
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Pistorius Not Able
from KCRW's The Score on May 01, 2008
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Research and Development divisions throughout the world of sports are pushing the technology envelope to make athletes more aerodynamic, to lessen impact on tumbling floors, to increase power in racquets. With 100 days to go before the Beijing Olympics, the biggest story to date has been the new ultra-streamlined swimsuits that have helped swimmers break an uncommon number of world records over the first few months of this year. It is the ultimate irony, then, that one athlete has been banned from this summer's Olympic Games because his equipment is evidently too technologically evolved. The irony comes with the fact that this athlete is physically disabled…
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Ben: A Track Athlete
from KCRW's The Score on April 24, 2008
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The winningest Division I coach of any sport, with 42 national titles, 30 national coach of the year awards, 23 Olympians under his tutelage, is retiring at the end of the school year...
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Ben: A Track Athlete
from KCRW's The Score on April 24, 2008
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The winningest Division I coach of any sport, with 42 national titles, 30 national coach of the year awards, 23 Olympians under his tutelage, is retiring at the end of the school year...
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LeMond Hard Times
from KCRW's The Score on April 17, 2008
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Before there was the hero Lance Armstrong, there was the hero Greg LeMond. LeMond, with his muscled style, his bon-vivant party-all-night, ride-the-Alps all-day fervor, with his three Tour de France victories back in the late ---80's, brought a passion for cycling to America and brought respect for an American cyclist to Europe. He was the first American to win the prestigious Tour. He was the first to win it on an American-made bicycle...
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LeMond Hard Times
from KCRW's The Score on April 17, 2008
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Before there was the hero Lance Armstrong, there was the hero Greg LeMond. LeMond, with his muscled style, his bon-vivant party-all-night, ride-the-Alps all-day fervor, with his three Tour de France victories back in the late ‘80's, brought a passion for cycling to America and brought respect for an American cyclist to Europe. He was the first American to win the prestigious Tour. He was the first to win it on an American-made bicycle...
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LeMond Hard Times
from KCRW's The Score on April 17, 2008
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Before there was the hero Lance Armstrong, there was the hero Greg LeMond. LeMond, with his muscled style, his bon-vivant party-all-night, ride-the-Alps all-day fervor, with his three Tour de France victories back in the late ‘80's, brought a passion for cycling to America and brought respect for an American cyclist to Europe. He was the first American to win the prestigious Tour. He was the first to win it on an American-made bicycle...
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LeMond Hard Times
from KCRW's The Score on April 17, 2008
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Before there was the hero Lance Armstrong, there was the hero Greg LeMond. LeMond, with his muscled style, his bon-vivant party-all-night, ride-the-Alps all-day fervor, with his three Tour de France victories back in the late ‘80's, brought a passion for cycling to America and brought respect for an American cyclist to Europe. He was the first American to win the prestigious Tour. He was the first to win it on an American-made bicycle...
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The Tiger Paradox
from KCRW's The Score on April 10, 2008
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The fabled Masters golf tournament is under way as of today down in Augusta, Georgia. Tiger is of course the story. Tiger. The greatest crossover sports star since Mohammed Ali. Tiger. The paradox of today's sports world. He's both the greatest element of this era of golf, and he's what's wrong with this era of golf...
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The Tiger Paradox
from KCRW's The Score on April 10, 2008
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The fabled Masters golf tournament is under way as of today down in Augusta, Georgia. Tiger is of course the story. Tiger. The greatest crossover sports star since Mohammed Ali. Tiger. The paradox of today's sports world. He's both the greatest element of this era of golf, and he's what's wrong with this era of golf...
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The Tiger Paradox
from KCRW's The Score on April 10, 2008
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The fabled Masters golf tournament is under way as of today down in Augusta, Georgia. Tiger is of course the story. Tiger. The greatest crossover sports star since Mohammed Ali. Tiger. The paradox of today's sports world. He's both the greatest element of this era of golf, and he's what's wrong with this era of golf...
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The Tiger Paradox
from KCRW's The Score on April 10, 2008
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The fabled Masters golf tournament is under way as of today down in Augusta, Georgia. Tiger is of course the story. Tiger. The greatest crossover sports star since Mohammed Ali. Tiger. The paradox of today's sports world. He's both the greatest element of this era of golf, and he's what's wrong with this era of golf...
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China, Wrong Choice.
from KCRW's The Score on April 03, 2008
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Back in the summer of 2001, the International Olympic Committee was reeling under revelations that the members who traveled the globe to select Olympic host cities had been more expert at accepting bribes than discerning world-class sports venues and adequate public transportation...
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