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Throughout the history of sports, there have been many great moments that have existed throughout the sporting world. From the four minute mile to a walk off home run to win a World Series, there have been many great moments that we have all experienced. But despite all of these incredible moments, there is one moment that stands out to me more than any other that should be recognized: The 1980 United States Olympic Hockey Team's semifinal win over the Soviet Union. Going into the semifinal game, American morale was at an all-time low, as for the first time in American history, Americans ...

Throughout my 17 years on this planet, my life has been influenced by a variety of different factors in this world. From incredible achievements to sad sorrow, I have seen how the world around me has influenced myself and everyone else around me. But one of the most important factors of my life have been the incredible world of sports, where I have gotten to see athletes put together incredible performances and have made a world of difference. After watching some of these great moments again during shows that recapped the last decade, I decided to create a slideshow of ...

Throughout sports history, cheating has existed in every sport in some way, shape, or form, which has caused whatever sport it is to become damaged, sometimes permanently. There are many different ways to cheat in sports, such as fixing games, placing bets on teams, lying about your age, and the biggest one of them all, taking performance enhancing substances. Sports such as baseball, track and field, weightlifting, and cycling have all had major problems with performance enhancing substances in recent years. This has caused all of  these sports to all face major criticism from fans and the media. Even athletes that are clean ...

Throughout sports history, cheating has existed in every sport in some way, shape, or form, which has caused whatever sport it is to become damaged, sometimes permanently. There are many different ways to cheat in sports, such as fixing games, placing bets on teams, lying about your age, and the biggest one of them all, taking performance enhancing substances. Sports such as baseball, track and field, weightlifting, and cycling have all had major problems with performance enhancing substances in recent years. This has caused all of  these sports to all face major criticism from fans and the media. Even athletes that are clean ...

Throughout American sports, soccer has long been considered to be a second-class sport, as it hasn't received as much support as major American sports such as Baseball, Basketball, and the NFL. But within the last month, times have started to change for the better for soccer in the United States, all of which started in the Confederations Cup in June in South Africa. After losing 3-1 to Italy and 3-0 to Brazil, the United States appeared to be heading out of the tournament early, and coach Bob Bradley appeared to be on the hot seat. But, America recovered with a 3-0 win over Egypt, ...

Seventy years ago today on July 4, 1939, New York Yankees legend Lou Gehrig made one of the most famous speeches in sport's history with his "Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth" speech. In this speech, Gehrig told fans at Yankee Stadium he was grateful for the great career he had, and for all of the support he got from everyone around him during his life. But, Gehrig also told everyone that he was now retiring as he had gotten Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (or ALS), which is a disease that kills people by shutting down the neurons that go to the brain, ...