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Lamar Hunt Dies Lamar Hunt, one of America's most innovative sports entrepreneurs of the last half-century, died Wednesday night.

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College Student Starts University Football Program When Doug DeLuca enrolled as a freshman at the University of Vermont in the fall of 2006, the school hadn't fielded a football team since 1974. DeLuca changed all that by starting a club football team, raising $35,000 for equipment, negotiating a million-dollar insurance policy and finding 50 players, coaches, trainers, opponents and a place to play and practice. Now they're the school's official team. Go Catamounts!

posted by rcade at 12:06 PM on December 04

Knicks Tell Stephon Marbury to Go Away "After meeting with Stephon and his representative this afternoon, we have directed Stephon not to participate in practice or attend games until further notice. We want to continue to meet with him to discuss a long-term resolution." -- Knicks President Donnie Walsh

posted by habitz at 12:55 PM on December 03

NFLPA Director Gene Upshaw Dies Gene Upshaw, the Hall of Fame offensive lineman for the Oakland Raiders who has led the NFL Players Association as executive director for 24 years, has died of pancreatic cancer at age 63.

posted by rcade at 09:56 AM on August 21

Road to glory passes through Lakehead Of all the odysseys Darnellia Russell has experienced — her teen pregnancy, her lawsuit against the Washington state school board, her high-school basketball team winning the state championship, the movie about her struggles and the fact she was ignored by the same U.S. Division I universities that once teased her with letters of recruitment — this has to be the oddest yet.That was where The Heart of the Game ended and where Russell's celebrity status exploded. She travelled the continent promoting the film as the teenager who took on the system and won. The movie received several honours, including the top entertainment award from the Women's Sports Foundation in Los Angeles. People recognized Russell and asked for her autograph. But those scholarship offers from Division I schools? They stopped coming soon after word got out she was pregnant.

posted by tommytrump at 11:43 AM on July 11

I needed to make this link dump, for this video I found that was not enough for a FPP. However, I needed to posted it! It is not often my palms sweat, but this did the trick!

posted by jojomfd1 at 07:03 PM on May 01

Mavericks begin rebuilding from the top Dallas fires coach Avery Johnson after another playoff disaster.

posted by graymatters at 02:39 PM on May 01

The Best Homerun Story Ever

posted by apoch at 10:27 AM on April 29

Clemens reportedly had affair with country star Roger Clemens has another potential scandal he's already denying. He reportedly had a affair with country singer Mindy McCready in a decade-long relationship that began when she was 15 and Clemens was a 28-year old with the Red Sox. This could be especially damaging as Clemens' defamation suit against Brian McNamee proceeds.

posted by dyams at 09:54 AM on April 29

NBA Playoffs Pool, anyone?

posted by Ufez Jones at 05:28 PM on April 18

Basketball team resists Saudi restrictions on female athletes. These Saudi women are going to play basketball, by gum, and there's nothing you can do about it. Zahed, who prays regularly and wears a head scarf even when outside Saudi Arabia, said that nothing in Islam bans women from sports. "Our society just has to get used to it," she said. "It's not yet normal for them to see women playing sports. But times are changing, and they have to start accepting it." (There's even a video of them playing.)[via]

posted by NoMich at 12:48 PM on April 17

Olympic torch put out by protests. Security officials canceled the final run of the Olympic relay through Paris after chaotic protests Monday, sending a snuffed-out torch to its destination on a bus in a humiliating concession to protesters decrying China's human rights record.

posted by worldcup2002 at 12:24 PM on April 09

SportsFilter Team Ownership Project I recently became an owner of AFC Wimbledon, a British football club begun by fans that's managed by a fans' trust with publicly sold shares. I'd like to see SportsFilter become an owner of several publicly traded sports franchises (or even individual athletes such as golfers and baseball prospects), buying at least one share a month and using site votes to exercise our voting rights when issues come up to a vote. What do you think of the idea?

posted by rcade at 09:11 AM on March 10

Pony Request: Developing Story Link? Barry Bonds. Michael Vick. Bill Belichick. Rocket. All characters that have been central to long running sports scandals. Rather than beating the same old dead horse every time a new development happens in these sorts of stories, what if there is a long on the front page of Sportsfilter that leads to a special "developing story" page. All these long running stories can live there and accumulate new links and new comments until the story comes to a close. I see this as a way of organizing links related to a single continuing story in a fairly logical, straightforward way. For those of us who like to go back and check previous stories on the same subject, this would reduce the amount of searching we need to do in the long run. Anyhow, as I said, just a pony request!

posted by Joey Michaels at 04:56 PM on February 25

2007 NFL Playoff Pick'em Conference Championship Round

posted by apoch at 09:00 PM on January 18

Redskins' Taylor Shot by Intruder Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor is in critical condition after being shot twice by an intruder early Monday at his Miami home. Taylor, 24, was the fifth overall pick in the 2004 draft and leads the team in interceptions. He's reportedly in emergency surgery.

posted by rcade at 01:07 PM on November 27