Sports
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ESPN’s “Last Dance” Recap: Air Jordan, Unabridged
Nathan Tucker nrtucker@lc.edu Twenty-two years in the making, ESPN’s new miniseries on Michael Jordan and the 1998 Chicago Bulls sheds new light on the team, the man himself and a bygone era of American culture.…
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“The Last Dance” Opinion: MJ, The GOAT
Chris Thomas cbthomas@lc.edu Micheal Jordan has surely gained my respect in just a few episodes. I knew the stories people told but I didn’t know to what extent his greatness was. Growing up I looked…
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UFC 249: Fighting In A Vacuum
By Nathan Tucker nrtucker@lc.edu On May 9, the world’s premier professional fighting championship, the UFC, held their first pay-per-view event since suspending events and operations as COVID-19 began its spread in the US. It…
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Bridge Sports Classics: The World Champion Chicago Cubs Come To Town
By Nathan Tucker nrtucker@lc.edu In this installment of Bridge Sports Classics, we travel from the Lewis and Clark Community College (L&C) campus down I-255, and take the 55 exit to St. Louis, and head to…
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Bridge Sports Classics: Maradona’s “Hand Of God” & The Goal Of The Century
By Nathan Tucker nrtucker@lc.edu While sports enthusiasts wait patiently to flood back into stadiums, arenas, little league ballfields and recreational basketball courts again, now is as good a time as any to look back on…
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Is COVID-19 A Blessing In Disguise For MLB?
Nathan Tucker nrtucker@lc.edu Prior to the outbreak ofthe novel coronavirus, one of the biggest stories around the baseball world was Major League Baseball’s proposal to effectively disband roughly a quarter of Minor League Baseball…
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NHL Shelves Quarantined Summer League
Nathan Tucker nrtucker@lc.edu As of this writing, it has been 42 days since sports leagues shuttered in an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. In those 42 days since, a lot of rumors…
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One And Done: RIP XFL, And Our Beloved BattleHawks
Nathan Tucker nrtucker@lc.edu Just under a month after the upstart XFL announced they were suspending operations due to the coronavirus pandemic, the league shuttered its doors completely on Friday, April 10. Most XFL employees…
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Can Esports Flourish In An Indoor World?
By Nathan Tucker nrtucker@lc.edu With COVID-19 effectively shutting the sports world down, fans around the globe have been searching for ways to pass the time without the copious amounts of live programming sports offer. You…
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WrestleMania 36, or, How I Learned To Love Sports Entertainment
Nathan Tucker nrtucker@lc.edu A regular reader of The Bridge’s sports vertical will notice that since my arrival to the paper last year, there has been an uptick in professional wrestling coverage, as I have…