Amanda Rykoff is a New York City-based writer. She’s a sports fan, proud Penn alum, recovering attorney, devoted aunt, and voracious consumer of media. She has contributed to ESPN, ONE World Sports, The Outside Corner and previously co-hosted the ESPN podcast, “Play Ball!” Follow her on Twitter.
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How To Win on Poker Night – Tips From Poker Pro Phil Laak
Here are five tips from Laak on how to make sure you leave with your buddies’ money at the end of poker night.
Ryan Lochte Kicking Balls & Taking Names In Times Square
Ryan Lochte doesn't shy away from competition. The 28-year old who is known as much for his good looks as his swimming ability has 11 Olympic swimming medals, including five golds. But on Tuesday afternoon, the three-time Olympian was in New York City's Times Square to compete in the Wild Turkey American Honey Bar-sity Athletics kickball game against a team captained by former NFL quarterback Dono
10 Horrendous MLB Hats No Fan Should Wear
Ah, Opening Day. One of the best days of the year. The smell of fresh-cut grass. The crack of the bat. Peanuts. Cracker Jacks. And....questionable baseball cap choices throughout the crowd. We know that people buy them, but why? We’ve taken a look at the thousands of licensed Major League Baseball hats on the market right now so you don’t have to
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New Boston Red Sox Anthem, ‘At Fenway’ is Pretty Horrendous
Twitter’s burning up today with news of 'At Fenway', a new song and music video debuting just in time for Opening Day of the baseball season. This homage to Fenway Park by “crooner” Brian Evans is, as this post put it, “about the worst thing imaginable” and after suffering through this video several times (for work purposes) it’s fair to say that it is just as bad as advertised, if not worse
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Inside the MLB Fan Cave for the World Baseball Classic
Bring sixteen die-hard baseball fans from around the world, put them in a fully-loaded apartment in New York City, deck them out in colorful team garb and have them tweet, post and blog about watching every World Baseball Classic game at all hours of the day and night. That’s what’s been happening since the first pitch of the 2013 WBC as part of MLB Fan Cave: World Baseball Classic Edition.
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Super Bowl 47: There’s a Prop Bet For That
In the week leading up to Super Bowl 47, you’re probably going to hear a few things about Ravens star linebacker Ray Lewis or 49ers sophomore stud quarterback Colin Kaepernick or the Harbaugh brothers. Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but did you know Jim and John are the first pair of brothers to coach against each other in the biggest of all the Big Games?