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Al Jefferson Has Sights on Team USA

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Fanhouse After going down in a heap last February and being lost for the season with a torn ACL, Al Jefferson is no longer black and blue. Now, he's thinking red, white and blue. There likely will be an opening for a post...
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Al Jefferson Has Sights on Team USA

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Fanhouse After going down in a heap last February and being lost for the season with a torn ACL, Al Jefferson is no longer black and blue. Now, he's thinking red, white and blue. There likely will be an opening for a post...
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Prince Fielder’s Deodorant Simply Is Not Working

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Sports by Brooks Not that I want to relive this pain, but Prince Fielder’s walkoff homer in the 12th on Sunday was notable for a couple of reasons. For one, it put a nice tasty winning icing on a game in which the Brewers turned their fourth triple play in fran...
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Teen Tennis Sensation Oudin Kicked Out of Hotel

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Sports by Brooks One of the more entertaining surprises of this year’s US Open - apart from Novak Djokovic impersonating John McEnroe & Johnny Mac’s response - has been Melanie Oudin, the 17-year-old from Marietta, Georgia, who’s made a memorable run to the quarterfinals, knocking off such bigger names as Maria Sharapova & Elena Dementieva. And...
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Carson Palmer: ‘Somebody Is Going to Die in NFL’

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Sports by Brooks So Peter King has been sitting on this pretty provocative quote for nearly two months, waiting until the week before he NFL regular season to roll it out. Hey, in sports journalism, timing is everything. Our speaker is Carson Palmer, and the subject...
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Padres Hold Off Dodgers To Win Series

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True Blue L.A. Despite the loss, it was good to see Hiroki Kuroda back on the hill for the Dodgers ...
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Brazil Qualify for World Cup 2010, Argentina Still Sweating

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World Cup Blog Brazil officially qualified for World Cup 2010 tonight, and did it by beating rivals Argentina 3-1. In Argentina. Luis Fabiano bagged two goals, Luisao got the other, Jesus Datolo scored for...
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Wayne Rooney’s history of diving at Manchester United

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101 Great Goals While we wouldn’t go so far as to say a couple of mashed up pieces of YouTube clips of apparent tumbles by Wayne Rooney provides conclusive evidence the the striker is a cast-iron diver, but the...
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Did Wayne Rooney take a dive for England?

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101 Great Goals With diving such a hot topic at the moment, and with the spotlight still very much on Wayne Rooney after his penalty against Arsenal last weekend in the Premier League, the Manchester United...
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Bobby Valentine? For Real? Are The Washington Nationals Really Considering Making Valentine Manager?

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Federal Baseball Just about once a month now it's popping up in the news....
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Terrelle Pryor Honors Mike Vick For Some Reason

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Sports by Brooks Good: winning your first game of the football season. Not so good: doing so against unheralded Navy. Bad: Only winning by four. Worse: Being the #1 quarterback prospect in the nation two years...
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Chargers LB Merriman arrested in domestic call

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Bolt Talk San Diego Chargers star outside linebacker Shawne Merriman was arrested Sunday and accused of...
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Saturday morning Rangers stuff

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Lone Star Ball Texas Rangers starting pitcher Scott Feldman is congratulated by...
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That Did Not Go Well

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Fenway West The revolving door at the end of the Red Sox rotation may need to turn some more. Paul Byrd did not look anything like the pitcher he was in his first game. In the middle of the third the White...
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Mariners Skipper Takes Job Title Seriously

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Deadspin Yes, that is Seattle manager Don Wakamatsu proudly showing off a...
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Soccer AM clips: Robbie Savage on the Forest-Derby brawl

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101 Great Goals Welsh legend Robbie Savage was the first guest on the show, the Derby midfielder talking about the club’s recent trip to Spain, what type of a captain he is, and then the bad-boy was asked to give...
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I’m Losing Respect for Rick Pitino by the Day

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The Dagger Sorry for the first-person in the headine there, but that's as clear a distillation as I can make. Rick Pitino has managed to take a situation in which he is ostensibly the victim -- remember, he was extorted, and he was the one whose statements to police at least slightly resembled the truth...
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Nothing Voluntary About Workouts, Says Former College Players

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Fan House Dallas Cowboys tight end Martellus Bennett certainly doesn't speak for everyone who has donned a college football uniform. But it's a good bet the outspoken second-year pro echoes the sentiment of a large population of curr...
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Despite Learning Disability, 49ers QB Nate Davis Earns NFL Job

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AOL Sports Blog - NFL Rookie quarterback Nate Davis, a San Francisco 49ers fifth-round draft pick in 2009, had an uncomfortable conversation several times in recent days with 12th-year quarterback Damon Huard. It wasn't about mentor...
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