SAN FRANCISCO — Once a backyard endeavor played with the Wham-O Frisbee, disc golf has developed into a highly nuanced competitive endeavor played in 47 countries.
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PALO ALTO — The yellow and blue triangle flags separating the track and the field were motionless — it was windless for the first time that season. And on that night at the 1996 California State Championships, Michael Granville set the national high school record in the 800 meters at 1:46.45. His winning time remains unbroken 22 years later.
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STANFORD — A two-sport graduate from the University of Virginia, in 2010 Meghan O’Leary hung up her softball mitt and volleyball shoes, moved to Connecticut, and worked as a production coordinator at ESPN. The job was everything she dreamed of — but she was restless. The words of the UVA rowing coach reverberated in her mind: “Come on, Meghan. You can be an Olympian in rowing.” She sat down and googled “rowing lessons.” That search would change her life.
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HALF MOON BAY, CA – On the winding highway to Half Moon Bay, a small dirt path leads up a mountain where wooden stables overlook grassy slopes with yellow flowers that welcome visitors to the Square Peg Foundation, a retirement home for former sport horses.
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STANFORD — Student athletes from Arizona, California, Colorado, Utah and Washington competed in the 2018 Pac-12 Track & Field Championship on May 12 through 13.
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SAN FRANCISCO — A small sports program for special needs students is struggling to raise enough donations to cover its costs, thanks to a change in how the San Francisco school district charges for fields.
Since the 1960s, the price of a 30-second advertising spot in the Super Bowl has constantly risen.
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The cash earnings of Super Bowl winning quarterbacks has varied greatly over the past decade. Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was paid less than $1 million the season his team was crowned champions. Meanwhile, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger earned nearly $28 million during the 2008-09 NFL year. The charts account for inflation, however. That
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This video explores whether paying players more correlates with Super Bowl victories, using historical player expenses data provided by Forbes.
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Using Lego figurines, this video illustrates the number of television viewers who watched the Super Bowl from 1967 to 2017.
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As an NBA writer for The Ringer, Danny Chau writes about major happenings of one of the most popular sports in the world, but he also writes about food with an evocative style.
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New York-based Lindbergh, 30, writes about baseball, video games and television for The Ringer.
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