I can’t believe I’m writing a blog post with the “Kardashian” name in the headline. But this is about sports. Really. A news item last week revealed that Kris Humphries is the most-disliked player in the NBA, according to recent surveys of the American public. Fifty percent of all respondents identified Kris Humphries as an […]

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A secret I now will reveal. The final few days in Paris, when it had gotten rainy, and even darker … I was looking forward to getting back to Abu Dhabi. Seriously. My preference, there at the end, was to leave Paris … and go to Abu Dhabi. Yes. Seems a bit daft. But we […]

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*-Written from the apartment in Abu Dhabi, where the weather today was sunny and in the low 80s. As usual, we will do this as a reverse countdown, “Late Show with David Letterman” style.

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Just when it looked safe — but premature — to get behind the Los Angeles Dodgers again … the club announced a promotional schedule for 2012 … with 10 bobblehead nights, led by a Sandy Koufax doll. And yes, I would do something as lame as pay $50 for a bad seat to an unappealing […]

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It is being reported tonight that Frank McCourt has agreed to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers. Thank goodness. Of course, he will try to claim the team is worth more than $1 billion (he paid $421 million eight years ago), which could complicate matters. The Dodgers probably have appreciated in value, no thanks to the […]

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Like a lot of sports-oriented people, I have a numbers thing. I think about numerals a lot. If I were to play a sport, I have preferred numbers. A different set for baseball, football, basketball. I will always have an opinion on a phone number, if I am given a choice. “This” number will be […]

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This is a big topic that I’m going to write about without nearly enough research. Because to give it all the thought it deserves … I’d never get around to writing. I’d just disappear into the research. I’ve been around to see five decades from beginning to end, and I’m going to rank them from […]

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A notion popped into my head while writing a column for The National about how this looks like it could/should be the best season in the history of the UAE’s domestic soccer league: An imbalance exists in many countries between the leagues those nations deserve … and the league that they have. In both directions: […]

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Sports movies are nearly all horrible. They are. Horrible. Not just bad. Awful. I was reminded of this while watching the ridiculous sports movie named Wimbledon, starring Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst and apparently made by a bunch of people who have zero idea how a tennis tournament … or a tennis match … or […]

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This differs markedly from the list in the item below — because this one includes the 40-plus foreigners in the league. The number of foreigners playing in the Pro League here in the UAE is up to a potential 48 this season (from 36 a year ago) because the league chose to add a fourth […]

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