Out of Bounds: Baseball wraps up another regular season

As with all good things that eventually end, the 2009 Major League Baseball regular season followed in suit this past weekend for 22 of the league's 30 teams.

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Out of Bounds: Big things are coming for basketball in Brooklyn

The large amount of cap space being freed by the New York Knicks and the likely move of the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn indicate that a huge change is coming our way, and hopefully for the better.

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Out of Bounds: NHL's warm-weather crows come home to roost

In the April 23, 2009 issue of The Lamron, I wrote an Out of Bounds column lambasting the National Hockey League's overzealous expansion into untested warm-weather markets, and suggested that failing warm-weather franchises should fold.

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Out of Bounds: NFL 2009 season introduces flashy, fantastic players

Last weekend, with the start of the 2009 NFL season, we saw the return of old favorites and the introduction of new players that are likely to impress both hardcore and casual viewers alike.

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Out of Bounds: Mets make quick work dashing fans' hopes, dreams

Hope for the 2009 New York Mets seemed to last about as long as a Brett Favre retirement, as injuries, poor management and plain old bad luck derailed a once promising season.

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Out of Bounds: Football falls to recession, like everyone else

The NHL, much like everything else, is expected to be walloped by the recession this year, bringing even more misfortune to this once great, presently struggling, league.

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Out of Bounds: NFL draft provides hopes for teams, fans

The NFL draft is probably the most exciting off-season event for football fans, as all teams look to revamp their lineups in hopes of miraculous improvements on future seasons.

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Out of Bounds: 2009 NBA Hall of Fame class demonstrates basketball's best

The NBA Hall of Fame class of 2009 features some of the greatest basketball players of all time - the most prestigious among these, the indomitable Michael Jordan.

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Out of Bounds: The road to March Madness is rocky for spectators

A month where sports go to die, February offers a meaningless array of spring training games and NFL free agency news. The only thing left to comfort sports fans in this cold and depressing month is the possibility that LeBron James might drop 50 points on the Knicks.

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Out of Bounds: Griffey chooses sentimental Seattle over advantageous Atlanta

Ken Griffey, Jr., who once patrolled center field for 10 years with the Seattle Mariners, decided last week to go back to the place where he started his Hall of Fame career.

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Out of Bounds: A-Rod represents more of the same rot in baseball

This past Monday, Alex Rodriguez admitted to taking steroids from 2001-2003, adding him to the constantly growing list of baseball superstars who doped, and tarnishing his legacy forever.

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Out of Bounds: Bills break in San Francisco

Playoff dreams for the Buffalo Bills were broken for the ninth consecutive year on Sunday, when fans watched the last essential home game of the season end with a 10-3 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.

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Out of Bounds: Football's championship bowls need reform

As most college football fans know, and even some non-fans who watched Barack Obama's interview on Monday Night Football know, America wants to change college football's Bowl Championship Series system.

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Out of Bounds: The NBA's fan challenge

A new season, new possibilities and new aspirations. But will teams in the NBA, a league that has lost so much credibility, be able to win back the hearts of sports fans?

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Out of Bounds: Sabres try to take a bite out of tough competition

Over the past few years, the Buffalo Sabres have continually let go of their star players, starting in 2001 with the loss of Michael Peca, an all-star forward who won a gold medal with Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics and went on to lead the Edmonton Oilers to the Stanley Cup Finals in 2006.

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Out of Bounds: As Yankee Stadium fades, so does the New York dynasty

Attention Yankee fans: Put away your hats and jerseys and start making plans for October that don't involve baseball, because your team is not going to be playing. The Dump in the Bronx also known as Yankee Stadium closed for good on Sunday, and for the first time since 1993 the Yankees get to watch the playoffs on TV.

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Out of Bounds: One year later: What collapse?

With less than 17 games left in the regular season, New York Mets fans are starting to feel uneasy.

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Out of Bounds: In the NFL, a lot can change in a week

The first week of pro football had more than its share of surprises and disappointments, ranging from a surprisingly dominant performance by the Chicago Bears to Tom Brady suffering a possible season-ending knee injury.

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Out of Bounds: In-state NFL teams show promise

Temperatures are dropping, leaves are falling and people are screaming. It's not Halloween - football season is here again.

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Out of Bounds: Which professional sport boasts the best postseason action?

A friend and I were recently debating which professional sport currently has the best postseason. They're all great, of course, but I argued that the pick definitely had to be…well, you'll see shortly. One man's rankings, in reverse order:

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