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		<title>&#8220;Great Team Chemistry No Match For Great Team Biology&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That was a recent headline from The Onion, and as usual, the short article that followed it pretty much wrote itself.  &#8221;I&#8217;ve never seen a team work in sync with itself as well as A&#38;M did tonight, but unfortunately, they were up against players who have bodies far better adapted for playing basketball,&#8221; ESPN&#8217;s Jay Bilas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thissportinglife.net&amp;blog=11927557&amp;post=597&amp;subd=thissportinglifeblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This bullfighter needs a left tackle&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thissportinglife.net/2012/03/07/this-bullfighter-needs-a-left-tackle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Norman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thissportinglife.net/?p=594</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;though he is clearly not lacking in cojones. This post may interrupt the flow of posts on the NFL&#8217;s &#8220;bountygate&#8221; (last seen here) but the surreal juxtaposition probably isn&#8217;t out of place. Is a bullfighter an athlete? an artist? a butcher? sad clown? all of the above? Well, if Juan José Padilla were an NFL player, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thissportinglife.net&amp;blog=11927557&amp;post=594&amp;subd=thissportinglifeblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What we cannot reliably learn from former NFL players about the &#8220;bounty&#8221; system (or anything else)</title>
		<link>http://thissportinglife.net/2012/03/07/what-we-cannot-learn-from-former-nfl-players/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It goes without saying that most of the chatter on the sports networks comes from the mouths of former players and coaches. There may typically be one journalist or &#8220;broadcaster&#8221; moderating a discussion, and occasionally there are non-player &#8220;experts&#8221; about particular subjects internal or external to the sport in question (from folks who analyze the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thissportinglife.net&amp;blog=11927557&amp;post=583&amp;subd=thissportinglifeblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bounty Ethics in the NFL</title>
		<link>http://thissportinglife.net/2012/03/06/bounty-ethics-in-the-nfl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Norman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thissportinglife.net/?p=575</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s now day 5 of &#8220;bountygate&#8221; and there&#8217;s surely very little left to be said. For those not entranced by the blue glow of 24/7 sports gossip on ESPN and the NFL Network (where gaggles of pundits on retainer need something to gab about between the early-Februrary Super Bowl and the late-April draft), or for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thissportinglife.net&amp;blog=11927557&amp;post=575&amp;subd=thissportinglifeblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shameless &#8220;Linsanity&#8221; link</title>
		<link>http://thissportinglife.net/2012/02/18/shameless-linsanity-link/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an over-committed personal and professional life &#8212; which includes teaching, overseeing another blog, being an editor of an academic journal, trying to get better on electric guitar, running, Bikram yoga, and refereeing on-going incidents involving two house-bound tomcats &#8212; this blog seems to have drawn the short straw for the time being. But to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thissportinglife.net&amp;blog=11927557&amp;post=572&amp;subd=thissportinglifeblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Luck don&#8217;t come easy</title>
		<link>http://thissportinglife.net/2011/10/31/luck-dont-come-easy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog has been dormant so long it missed an entire baseball season. There are no doubt plenty of thorough accounts of that season; but a very short post-World Series blog post in the New Yorker by Roger Angell captures a lot of what&#8217;s great and weird about every baseball season. Thrilling but, in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thissportinglife.net&amp;blog=11927557&amp;post=569&amp;subd=thissportinglifeblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Wage sport on war&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thissportinglife.net/2011/04/30/wage-sport-on-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nike makes the case for sport. It&#8217;s not the whole case &#8212; hey, it doesn&#8217;t even talk about why sports is great from the couch. And it doesn&#8217;t consider the case against. But in two minutes they make a beautiful case. Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thissportinglife.net&amp;blog=11927557&amp;post=563&amp;subd=thissportinglifeblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Still wondering about the Wonderlic test</title>
		<link>http://thissportinglife.net/2011/03/26/still-wondering-about-the-wonderlic-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read another extremely typical, and unhelpful, treatment of the relevance of the Wonderlic test for predicting the prospects of young quarterbacks in the NFL. It comes from SI.com&#8217;s &#8220;Cold Hard Facts,&#8221; via the Beacher Report. I raised this issue in the previous post, &#8220;Your brain on sports.&#8221; Like everything I&#8217;ve ever read or heard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thissportinglife.net&amp;blog=11927557&amp;post=551&amp;subd=thissportinglifeblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your brain on sports</title>
		<link>http://thissportinglife.net/2011/03/24/your-brain-on-sports/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does playing sports make you smarter? Or is it just that smart people play (and excel at) sports? The studies referred to in a New York Times blog post today won&#8217;t settle that debate. But they do highlight ways in which the jock&#8217;s brain seems to be smarter and faster than the nerd&#8217;s. The main [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thissportinglife.net&amp;blog=11927557&amp;post=547&amp;subd=thissportinglifeblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ridin&#8217; with the King</title>
		<link>http://thissportinglife.net/2011/03/22/ridin-with-the-king/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was my great pleasure yesterday to meet my long-time hero King Kaufman, who I name-checked and quoted in the very first post on this blog. King famously described his groundbreaking sports column (or we might say &#8220;sports-on-TV&#8221; column) as &#8221;Like talking to the guy on the next barstool, if the guy on the next barstool [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thissportinglife.net&amp;blog=11927557&amp;post=540&amp;subd=thissportinglifeblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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