Followers of the Tour De France say it’s time to take back the tour. We’ll have the straight dope this week on Only A Game. Also, semi-pro soccer players go up against the pros at the Lamar Hunt Open, and casting and cranking with the anglers of the women’s bassmaster tour.
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No one can deny that poker has experienced a renaissance of sorts in the past few years. Des Wilson’s book Ghosts At The Table: Riverboat Gamblers, Texas Rounders, Roadside Hucksters, and the Living Legends Who Made Poker What It Is Today chronicles the path of how poker gained the status it has today by telling the stories of some of game’s greatest faces.
It’s not news that pro and college athletes sometimes fail to behave like role models, but a couple of recent incidents involving Major League Baseball players seem especially worthy of note. Or at least that’s what Bill Littlefield thinks.
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