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		<title>January Transfer Window Invites Wild Speculation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those that are new to the ‘Beautiful Game’, January is a special time.  Not only does it bring about a highly congested fixture list (at least in England), but also a month-long period in which clubs across Europe may buy, sell and loan players. Potential purchases can save a club from relegation to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebleacherbums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8057929&amp;post=584&amp;subd=thebleacherbums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Uconn Exceeds Early Expectations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[College basketball fans at Trinity have good reason to be excited.  This season, students will be able to watch a young, exciting and potentially top-tier team up close and personal at their home away from home, the XL Center in downtown Hartford.  And no, I am not talking about the Uconn women, although they too [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebleacherbums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8057929&amp;post=581&amp;subd=thebleacherbums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jose Mourinho and Real Madrid in Deliberate Red-Card Controversy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night’s Champions League Group Game between Real Madrid and Ajax ended in farce, as two Madrid players were sent off in the game’s dying embers for time-wasting, despite leading 4-0.  Xabi Alonso took seemingly forever to take a free kick, pointlessly stepping up and then back from the ball.  Minutes later, the Ajax crowd [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebleacherbums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8057929&amp;post=574&amp;subd=thebleacherbums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goal-line Technology Should be FIFA Task Force Priority</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 10:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FIFA President Sepp Blatter has called for the creation of a task force charged with making the next World Cup “more attractive” than the last.  FIFA’s primary concern is that of ‘quality’.  When the most exciting moment of a tournament is when a particularly gifted octopus predicts the outcome of the final, you know it’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebleacherbums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8057929&amp;post=565&amp;subd=thebleacherbums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pay The Captain: Yankees Need to End Jeter Dispute</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has now reached the point of utter absurdity. For the first time in 10 years, Derek Jeter is a free agent. Jeter, whose historic career has produced 5 championships, the most hits in Yankees history, and a .314 batting average, has become an iconic player and the face of the most successful franchise in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebleacherbums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8057929&amp;post=561&amp;subd=thebleacherbums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moss to Titans: A Failed Experiment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 04:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tennessee Titans claimed the troubled wide receiver Randy Moss off waivers this week in a move the Titans hope will help them secure a playoff berth in a competitive AFC South division. This will be Moss’s 3rd team this season, and there’s a good reason the Titans were the only team in the NFL [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebleacherbums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8057929&amp;post=552&amp;subd=thebleacherbums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Join City and You&#8217;re Dead!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; This was the message Wayne Rooney received from balaclava-wearing ‘fans’ (if you can call them that) gathered outside his Cheshire mansion last week after it became clear that the England striker was unwilling to sign a new contract with Manchester United.  Rooney cited the club’s lack of ambition as his primary reason for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebleacherbums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8057929&amp;post=548&amp;subd=thebleacherbums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should the NFL suspend players for &#8220;illegal&#8221; hits?</title>
		<link>http://thebleacherbums.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/should-the-nfl-suspend-players-for-illegal-hits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the NFL imposed huge fines for 3 vicious hits that took place in Week 6 games on Sunday, and voiced its intent to begin suspending players for these types of hits in the future. In what has become an extremely controversial issue for players, coaches, and fans, the league decided to take a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebleacherbums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8057929&amp;post=541&amp;subd=thebleacherbums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should NFL teams be forced to play starters after clinching playoff positioning?</title>
		<link>http://thebleacherbums.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/should-nfl-teams-be-forced-to-play-starters-after-clinching-playoff-positioning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[    As the 2009 NFL regular season has come to a close, and Wild Card playoff weekend approaches, the normal buzz of playoff anticipation and the firing of coaches is in the air. The end of the regular season has also brought with it talk of an important problem that needs to be fixed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebleacherbums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8057929&amp;post=527&amp;subd=thebleacherbums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bronx Bombers sweep Twinkies and move on to face Angels in ALCS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Mariano River&#8217;s last pitch, which produced a weak groundball to Derek Jeter, it appeared as though no time had passed since the Yankees teams of the late 90s and early 2000s dominated postseason play and earned the opportunities to play deep into October. This groundball, which Derek Jeter threw over to Mark Teixeira at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebleacherbums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8057929&amp;post=505&amp;subd=thebleacherbums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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