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And the NHL playoffs just got more attractive.
This is easily my most important post in seven years.
Just ask Mike Komisarek how it feels to be a bystander.
Ego, jealousy, anger - they all run rampant when your skills remain unused. But the feeling of helplessness lingers the most as you watch player after player jump over the boards, while you wait on the bench as your number gets called less and less.
His eyes are unmistakable. Success hides a lot of pain. For Mikhail Grabovski, the Leafs ascent to hockey relevance can only be bittersweet.
Immediately after losing his bid for the perfect game with two outs in the bottom of the 9th, Yu Darvish smiles.
Baseball, welcome back.
I grew up thinking I can be “Like Mike”. I never have those thoughts with Lebron James.
You can’t imitate the impossible.
SI photographer Neil Leifer captures this aerial view of George Foreman on the canvas after being knocked out by Muhammad Ali at the Rumble in the Jungle. Ali turns 71 today. (Neil Leifer/SI)
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