Hunter S. Thompson: Sports Fan

Wed Dec 17, 2008 11:02 AM EST

He went on the road with the Hell's Angels in order to acquire fame, then took the world's youth on a trippy trek through the "Feared and Loathed Las Vegas Strip"—but in between, a love affair with sports was always riding shotgun.

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I'm Thankful

Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:07 PM EST

Thanksgiving is next week, so I feel it prudent to delve into a few of the particulars I feel especially thankful for this holiday season.

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Strange NFL Days

Fri Oct 31, 2008 11:35 AM EDT

It's a strange time of year, a strange time in history, and an even stranger time in the world of the NFL.

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Sir Lance of France?

Tue Oct 7, 2008 8:20 PM EDT

He's fast. Fast with women, fast with his friends, and fast while hob-knobbing with world leaders crusading against one of life's largest dangers. But pedaling a bicycle is what he does the fastest, and he never loses.

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It's A Sickness Being A Cub's Fan

Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:44 PM EDT

'It's A Sickness' The Curse of the Billy Goat. Ron Santo and the black cat. The Great Crumble of 1969. That ball in 1984 that went through Leon Durhams legs against the Padres. A 99-year drought. Oh-yeah, lest we forget, Bartman, The Boy Blunder.

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Boo Weekly, I can dig it

Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:24 PM EDT

Have you ever seen a professional golfer, a PGA Touring pro, ride his driver like it was horse between his legs, smacking it on the driver head behind him, galloping down the fairway on a Saturday, during…The Ryder Cup?

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Uproar MMA

Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:13 PM EDT

Mixed Martial Arts is the biggest sport on the planet, next to soccer or football, as the rest of the world likes to refer to it, and in Hawai'i, second only to, maybe, surfing.

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David Sterns NBA: Where you can hit your Wife but not your Bong

Mon Sep 8, 2008 4:52 PM EDT

Did you here about the two stoned NBA players who robbed an ice-cream shop of all its ice cream over the weekend?

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Too Much Too Soon For Heismen Winner

Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:43 PM EDT

Sometimes too much too soon equates to a perfectly scripted premature exit.

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Newsvine - Beijing Olympics: Reality Bites

Seeded on Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:42 PM EDT (Newsvine)

Beijing Olympics: Reality Bites

Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:41 PM EDT

Was anything as it seemed at this year's Olympics held in Beijing? Does China think the rest of the world has a full coat of wool pulled tightly over their collective eyes or what? I don't know about you but I'm ready to get back to reality.

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Fantasy Football Island...Da Pain! Da Pain!

Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:32 AM EDT

History is a funny thing. Making history, or watching history being made is a surreal experience. Understanding the social significance of athletes, Olympic athletes, and the history that they make, event after event, is extremely important.

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Poker With Willy Nelson

Sat Aug 16, 2008 7:34 PM EDT

Poker is a funny thing. I'm not sure if it is considered a sport, if not it probably should be. In the past few years poker has become hugely popular and hugely profitable if you make it to what aficionados of poker tournaments call, the Final Table.

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Get Up, Stand Up, Stand Up For Your Right's

Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:45 AM EDT

I'm a sucker. I have fallen prey to the stereotypes I have seen in Hollywood movies and fear has led me down a path of beachside observation rather than wave top stoke when it comes to the endeavor of surfing.

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Former Crack Head With A Smooth Swing

Sat Aug 9, 2008 1:15 PM EDT

Everyone deserves a second chance, even ice-heads. But what about ice-heads with a Major League Baseball contract and a $4 million signing bonus to burn.

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Rubicon

Mon Aug 4, 2008 3:23 PM EDT

In case we forgot, or didn't have a chance to notice because of that guy in Green Bay taking up all of the headlines, there were a few other current events to gander and ponder in the past two weeks.

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Sports Odyssey

Mon Aug 4, 2008 12:53 PM EDT

I was flabbergasted by some of the random activity in the sports world this week, so I thought I would share a few of these random facts, or tidbits, with the readers of this fine column… The Chicago Cubs are in first place.

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Boo Weekly

Sat Aug 2, 2008 1:03 PM EDT

I like Rednecks. Let it be known I hate labels, and Redneck is assuredly a label with a sometimes-negative connotation in a world littered with Politically Correct agendas, but in the world of sports, guys with a Redneck label are my kind of sports figures.

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Marcus Dixon Is A Man

Wed Jul 30, 2008 1:52 PM EDT

Do any of you remember Marcus Dixon? In 2003, Dixon was a blue-chip, 18-year old senior, who played lineman for the football team at Pepperell High school, in Lindale, Georgia. He was as good in the classroom as he was in on the football field.

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Lebron, R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Your Mother

Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:43 PM EDT

R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

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Ziggy Marley Interview

Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:34 PM EDT

A soulful grin overwhelms Ziggy Marley's face, his eyes, just like his dad's eyes, attentive, and willingly present for the conversation that has been struck around a circular table for two just behind the concert stage at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center.

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Surf Soldiers, Laird Hamilton and His Fearless Posse

Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:28 PM EDT

As I stood over the cliff looking down at the sleeping giant bellow, I tried to envision the scene that would be taking place, in just a few short weeks, just a few hundred yards off shore, out there in the now peaceful Pacific.

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He Looks A Lot Like The Mailman

Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:34 PM EDT

Demetrius Bell was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the seventh round of the NFL draft a few weeks ago and his dad wasn't present to see him walk to the podium and dawn his crisp new Bills logo hat.

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Gearaholic

Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:32 PM EDT

I have an addiction, one I am not remotely ashamed to admit publicly here within the spaces of TV Timeout, and it is a whopper. Are you ready? Drum roll please… My Name is TV and I am a Gearaholic?

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Wrigley Karma

Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:18 PM EDT

Wrigley Karma Did you here that billionaire business dummy Sam Zell, new owner of the Chicago Tribune the Chicago Cubs, and the finest ballpark in America, Wrigley Field, is going to sell the naming rights of Wrigley Field to the highest bidder?

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