Could this have turned out any other way? Well, no. So why did it take so long? The Dodgers were a team that needed a marquee name and figured Manny Ramirez should be that guy. Manny Ramirez was a free-agent slugger who nobody really wanted, aside from the Dodgers. They managed to avoid acknowledging the […]

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It appears as if the perpetrators of the attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team — in broad daylight in downtown Lahore, Pakistan — won’t be found. They just hopped into motorized rickshaws (what a concept) and zipped away. Six Sri Lankan cricketers were wounded, as was a British coach. Six Pakistani policemen and two […]

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This is a story perhaps not getting as much attention domestically as it should. Terrorists attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan, wounding six players and an English coach, and killing at least seven police and two bystanders. This is the first attack on an international sports team since Munich, 1972. This is […]

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What is it like being a season ticket holder with the Los Angeles Galaxy? Well, David Beckham will play for the club this season. Or he won’t. Landon Donovan will be here. Or he won’t. Actually, I don’t know how anyone can spend any money at all on this club, until we get an idea […]

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I asked for help, a couple of months back, in deciding which English Premier League team to root for … and readers had some strong opinions and made some good cases. So, here I am, and the race is heading for the wire, and where have I chosen to place my devotion? As the headline […]

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