Tagged: NPR sports

12:10pm

Tue September 25, 2012
The Two-Way

Bring back the real NFL refs! Debacle in Seahawks-Packers game adds to outrage

Originally published on Tue September 25, 2012 4:39 pm

Credit Stephen Brashear / AP

Football fans are furious. Bettors are out an estimated $150 million. Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin — the Republican who's famous for battling with organized labor — is on the side of the referees union. And the NFL is in something of a "prevent defense," saying that nothing can be done to change the outcome.

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8:26am

Tue March 13, 2012
NPR sports

Five things you absolutely, positively have to know about March Madness

Originally published on Tue March 13, 2012 8:12 am

Credit Pablo Monsivais / AP

Summer vacation? It's for slackers. Those first gorgeously colored leaves of fall? They'll have to be raked into soggy piles a month later. And Christmas? Bah ...

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