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Steve Rushin: Athletes, others retiring with 'no regrets' seems implausible (05/22/2013)
Steve Rushin: Rushin Index: Top Robinsons (05/08/2013)
Steve Rushin: A trying week in Boston as a city stands strong (04/24/2013)
Steve Rushin: Thoughts On a Special Day (04/15/2013)
Steve Rushin: Have superheros replaced athletes as childhood idols of choice? (03/13/2013)
Steve Rushin: SI's 50 Most Powerful People in Sports (03/06/2013)
Steve Rushin: Incoherent rambling a regular part of the sports conversation (03/06/2013)
Rushin Index: Super Bowl Joes (01/30/2013)
Steve Rushin: No matter what age, sibling rivalry always runs deep (01/23/2013)
Steve Rushin: Precapping 2013: The year where a cursed number became lucky (12/28/2012)
Steve Rushin: Do NHL fans really miss hockey? (12/19/2012)
Steve Rushin: What if life were more like 'The Beautiful Game?' (11/14/2012)
Steve Rushin: If so many things in sports are 'no-brainers', when do we use brains? (11/07/2012)
Steve Rushin: Leyland trying to follow in Anderson's footsteps and lead Tigers to World Series title (10/24/2012)
Steve Rushin: Freud's Embarrassment-Dream of Nakedness describes Yanks' failure (10/17/2012)
Steve Rushin: Reds back in playoffs, giving long-suffering Cincinnati great pride (10/10/2012)
Steve Rushin: Ed Hochuli unplugged: his life outside the stripes and food vice (10/03/2012)
Steve Rushin: Ref Ed Hochuli with an inside look at what he does on a typical play (09/27/2012)
Steve Rushin: In sports, and in life, one is always either Home or Away (09/26/2012)
Steve Rushin: Some unwritten football rules that need to be etched in stone (09/19/2012)
Steve Rushin: The promise to get better is required no matter winning or losing (09/12/2012)
Steve Rushin: Humility rare in sports; sometimes it's welcomed, more often it's not (08/29/2012)
Steve Rushin: A fan's guide to etiquette while attending sporting events (08/22/2012)
Steve Rushin: Strasburg Shutdown part of recent, and hotly debated, phenomenon (08/15/2012)
Steve Rushin: Finding a long forgotten gold medal and getting chills all over again (08/08/2012)
Steve Rushin: Top Bobs in sports history (08/07/2012)
Steve Rushin: Even in an Olympic year, August is speed bump on sports calendar (08/01/2012)
Steve Rushin: The wonders of London (07/25/2012)
Steve Rushin: Statues have been erected outside stadiums since Roman Empire (07/18/2012)
Steve Rushin: Watching baseball on TV with Dad is a game within the game (07/11/2012)
Rushin Index: top Georges in history (07/02/2012)
Steve Rushin: Great goals, heroes ... beautiful game on display at Euro 2012 (06/27/2012)
Steve Rushin: A bucket list of summer fun (06/20/2012)
Steve Rushin: Specs have become a spectacle for many of today's sports stars (06/13/2012)
Steve Rushin: What I don't know ... (06/06/2012)
Rushin Index: Top Johans (06/05/2012)
Steve Rushin: A guide to sports fighting (05/30/2012)
Steve Rushin: Sports gods are omnipresent to many, even though they don't exist (05/23/2012)
Steve Rushin: New York filled with sports ghosts (05/16/2012)
Steve Rushin: Lying a sport unto itself (05/09/2012)
Steve Rushin: Interlopers at sporting events are the last taboo on television (05/02/2012)
Steve Rushin: Red Sox's slow start has New England in state of Mass. Hysteria (04/25/2012)
Steve Rushin: At 84, Vin Scully still a magical voice emanating through the night (04/18/2012)
Steve Rushin: Guillen mess is result of culture seeking manufactured opinions (04/11/2012)
Steve Rushin: It's a quarterback's world (04/04/2012)
Steve Rushin: For some, getting booed is a rite of passage in sports (03/21/2012)
Steve Rushin: Beauty of NCAA tournament is all in the sights and sounds (03/14/2012)
Steve Rushin: Co-opted words like 'bounty' have no place in sports (03/07/2012)
Steve Rushin: The Bubble is everywhere in March, but it originated in auto racing (02/29/2012)
Steve Rushin: Some simple heckling etiquette (02/22/2012)
Steve Rushin: Air travel a necessary -- and rarely glamorous -- evil in sports (02/15/2012)
Steve Rushin: For better or worse, goats an indelible part of sports culture (02/08/2012)
Steve Rushin: Trade rumors have always been a part of sports culture (02/01/2012)
Steve Rushin: At sports events, beating traffic is on minds of gridlock-weary fans (01/25/2012)
Steve Rushin: Built on a dump, Candlestick Park gave sports world so much (01/18/2012)
Steve Rushin: Henry's return to Arsenal -- and goal -- represents best in sports (01/11/2012)
Steve Rushin: Winter Classic reminds us of a time when sports were simple, pure (01/04/2012)
Steve Rushin: The topsy-turvy year in sports (12/23/2011)
Steve Rushin: Over the years, the NBA has become a staple on Christmas Day (12/20/2011)
Steve Rushin: Sports, like life, filled with B.S. (12/14/2011)
Steve Rushin: Posthumous honors like Santo's are the ultimate mixed blessing (12/07/2011)
Steve Rushin: Forty years later Brian's Song still resonates -- and produces tears (11/30/2011)
Steve Rushin: Plenty to be thankful for (11/23/2011)
Steve Rushin: A special language just for sports (11/16/2011)
Steve Rushin: Welcome to the jungle: scenes from an NFL game (11/09/2011)
Steve Rushin: Even in the dark, news in the sports world seems to be the same (11/02/2011)
Steve Rushin: Embracing the couch, an integral part of sports -- and society (10/26/2011)
Steve Rushin: The perils of postgame handshake (10/19/2011)
Steve Rushin: This year's baseball playoffs have been filled with childlike moments (10/12/2011)
Steve Rushin: Rankled by rankings (10/05/2011)
Steve Rushin: Red Sox' rollercoaster season fun to watch, even without watching (09/28/2011)
Steve Rushin: A complete -- albeit metaphorical -- history of ass kicking (09/21/2011)
Steve Rushin: What's in a name? These days it's the poetic beauty of the NFL (09/13/2011)
Steve Rushin: Rarely living up to the hype (08/31/2011)
Steve Rushin: When uncool becomes cool (08/24/2011)
Steve Rushin: Did the Cubs really win the 1908 World Series? Maybe not (08/17/2011)
Steve Rushin: Watching a baseball game has become a marathon (08/09/2011)
Steve Rushin: Milwaukee would love new slogan to be: Fear the Brewers (08/03/2011)
Steve Rushin: Twilight of the highlight (07/27/2011)
Steve Rushin: A personal Homer Odyssey (07/11/2011)
Steve Rushin: Why sports fans love to be miserable (07/06/2011)
Steve Rushin: Bankrupt Dodgers have several assets that money can't buy (06/29/2011)
Steve Rushin: Rooting for 80-year-old skipper Jack McKeon, the Marlins' Merlin (06/22/2011)
Steve Rushin: The age of too much information (06/15/2011)
Steve Rushin: Why do athletes kiss trophies? They play hard to get (06/08/2011)
Steve Rushin: Running out of scorn (06/01/2011)
Steve Rushin: Whiteouts, blue-outs, red-outs ... they're just one big eyesore (05/25/2011)
Steve Rushin: Sports through lens of a poster (05/18/2011)
Steve Rushin: Grace and humility defined the great slugger Harmon Killebrew (05/16/2011)
Steve Rushin: Nothing says ouch more than a grisly sports injury (05/10/2011)
Steve Rushin: 44 is a magic number in sports (05/04/2011)
Steve Rushin: You're calling a foul on me? (04/27/2011)
Steve Rushin: Often overlooked, Wednesday an important day in sports history (04/20/2011)
Steve Rushin: So what if it's only the middle of April? It's never too early to panic (04/12/2011)
Steve Rushin: What Keith Richards taught me about sports (04/06/2011)
Steve Rushin: Take it from me: It's not a bad thing to be neutral on sports (03/30/2011)
Steve Rushin: A first pack of baseball cards creates a lifetime memory (03/23/2011)
Steve Rushin: In sea of Armani-clad coaches, Huggins makes statement with tracksuit (03/16/2011)
Steve Rushin: Nothing says spring like patch of grass (03/09/2011)
Steve Rushin: Enjoy sports -- life -- go offline (03/02/2011)