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Derek Tang 307 posts 0 comments

Put an avid sports fan(atic) together with social networking, and you have someone like me who is prone to live-tweeting pretty much any event he's watching!

Somewhere inside of me is a sports analyst waiting to break out, and TheAOSN.com is the perfect setting for me.

The English Premiership, the NFL, and all things Duke University are my particular areas of sports expertise, but I'm just as willing to have discussions about badminton, extreme sports, the Olympics.......and just about anything else that covers sports culture. Basically, if it's sports talk, I'm in!

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NFL: What We Learned From Week 1

Derek Tang
This past weekend's action in the NFL may have merely been the beginning, but it also provided plenty of talking points for the weeks ahead. The season opener in Denver saw Trevor Siemian's steady if unspectacular debut overshadowed by the controversy surrounding missed calls and proper administration of the concussion protocol as Cam Newton got…
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Rio 2016: The True Heroes

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The eyes of the world will turn to Brazil and the city of Rio de Janeiro as the 2016 Olympic Games officially opens on Friday, August 5th. http://gty.im/585823962 Following a tumultuous run-in to the games replete with stories of unfinished facilities, public health concerns, and athlete withdrawals, the Opening Ceremony will no doubt be a…
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The Icelandic Success Story

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In what some pundits have labeled as a bigger upset for England than losing to the United States in the 1950 World Cup (more on that later), the Icelandic national team wrote the latest chapter in their remarkable story when they overcome an early deficit to defeat the English and advance to the European Championship quarterfinals. Embed from…
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The US National Team: Soccer’s Jekyll and Hyde

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Soccer is a sport that often times defies logic. At the Copa America Centenario currently being played across the United States, nowhere does that truth seem more evident than in the performances of the host nation so far. Albert Einstein once famously defined insanity as the repetition of an action while expecting different results, but in the…
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