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More than 500 million rounds of golf are played in the United States every year. Counting all par 3s, 4s, and 5s together, that’s nine billion tee shots. Roughly 142 thousand of those turn into holes-in-one. That’s a lot of once-in-a-lifetime shots. The hole-in-one is at once the most elusive of sports accomplishments and the…

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Sixty-four hundred people were in the building and saw it for themselves. None of them could believe their eyes, but they saw it. Countless others watched the highlights on SportsCenter or stopped their scrolling long enough to read gobsmacked posts about what had happened. Oh, it happened. Even if the record books—some of the record…

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Join us for a new season of Out of Left Field . . . coming soon!

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On December 12, 2020, Jasmine Harrison climbed aboard Argo and started rowing. She has not stepped foot on dry land since.The 21-year-old swim instructor/bartender-turned-adventurer is competing in the 2020 Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, a 3,000-mile race from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean. There are 21 boats in this year’s TWAC, and Jasmine is the…

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The mainstream sports fan probably only spends about six minutes watching horse racing in a given year — the combined running time of the three Triple Crown races. A smaller subset will follow the 14 million-dollar races run over Breeders Cup weekend. Fewer still will watch the graded stakes races that lead up to the…

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As you’re sitting around this Election Day, waiting for results to come in, sports might be the furthest thing from your mind. Just as when you watched your favorite college football team play on Saturday, electoral politics probably were the last thing you wanted to think about.But what if there actually is a relationship between…

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It was a baseball game that originally was not supposed to be played. By the time it was over, it was a game that 16 seniors from Rhodes College and SUNY Oneonta — and their teammates, coaches, and families — will never forget. Officially, their seasons had been cancelled a few days earlier, as the…

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The NFL likes to tell college prospects that the size of their school or the level of competition they play doesn’t matter, that if a player has talent, they’ll find him. But small school prospects know the reality: exposure to NFL decision-makers is extremely limited, and there just aren’t many opportunities to catch an eye….

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Opening Day is about many things: The return of baseball season. The end of winter. Most of all, it is a day of hope and possibility. The caliber of gameplay might not yet be in midseason form, nor is the weather; still, Opening Day arrives with the promise of better days to come.  Not this…