Quote: His season with the Result (highlight to reveal): Galaxy has been similar to Alex
Rodriguez's with the Yankees — short on drama and long on performance. Here's a fun game for you.
Who is Jere Longman referring to in this sentence? I'd provide a link to Longman's New York Times
article, but the answer is given in the link.
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(clears throat)
Two-thousand seven!
(clap-clap, clap-clap-clap)
Two-thousand seven!
(clap-clap, clap-clap-clap)
That's all I got to say right now. Deal with it, Simmons and Shaughnessy. You both lied to us by
not dying in peace like you said you would.
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No Wizards soccer this week so I decided to dip my toes in the editorial waters of general
soccer news.
So last week MLS President Don Garber was talking to the A.P. about how the downward economy has
affected sports. As an example he mentioned that in the new Yankee Stadium (the house the Ruth
didn't build and probably could not afford to watch a game in) there were empty seat.
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Some of my fellow Lillywhites at Tottenham have some very rude comments about Arsene Wenger.
There is one song that ends in "Wenger is a [explicative] pedophile".
I hate it. It lacks class or common decency. But football supporters aren't always the classiest
people when it comes to rivalry, as we all know.
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You may recall that back when the panic started concerning Freddie Ljungberg's hip labrum surgery I
decided to do a tiny bit of research concerning the Doctor and his history with the procedure. Well
today we get to find out that the richest baseball team in the world, and their absolute richest
player will also be [.
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Yesterday morning, a Sports Illustrated report fingered Alex Rodriguez - the best player in
baseball - as a steroid user. A cheater. Rodriguez, whom many believed to be "clean" from
illegal performance enhancers, reportedly tested positive for steroids in 2003. Today, his name, as
well as his sport, are getting dragged through the mud as a result.
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It's really not fair for Amy Rodriguez. Of all the places she could have started her professional
soccer career, she ends up in locale where she get booed and hissed at right from the start. Yes, I
know that she was just selected first overall in the very first WPS Draft yesterday in St. Louis. I
also know that she's easily one of the best American players, by virtue of her gold mdeal earned
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Photo: Mens Health/Anthony Madler
David Beckham is hailed as the world's greatest sporting icon in this month's edition of
Men's Health.
"Beckham is, without a doubt, planetary," the magazine says. "As far as universally
recognisable names in sports today, you have David Beckham.
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It's a funny old world when the sports league that probably gets laughed at and dismissed both in
its own country and abroad more than any other also employs the world's biggest earner on any
sports team, anywhere. Forbes' "World's Top Earning Athletes" lists MLS' own David Beckham at sixth
place ($33 million), below only [...]
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