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ESPN At The Little League World Series

Horatio Cornblower -
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KARL RAVECH:  Hi Folks, Karl Ravech here in Williamsport, PA, home of the Little League World Series, where we'll be spending the next week exploiting and psychologically damaging 12 and 13 year olds by subjecting them to the sort in intense scrutiny usually reserved for SEC football players.  Except the

The [*Redacted] s Get a New Community Outreach Coordinator

SonOfSpam -
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In a lavishly-appointed office, somewhere near (well, not that near) Washington D.C., the [*Redacted] s' chiefs tackle a problem... Bruce Allen: "Our latest pronouncement that we won't change our team name -" Dan Snyder: "THE [*Redacted] S!" Bruce Allen: "Uh, right. The [*Redacted] s. Anyway, our announcement that we won't change our name even to negotiate

Windy City: How Hurricane Katrina Saved Chicago

makeitsnowondem -
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McQueary: You don't know how many people acted like it was my fault, in those first few days. That's crazy, right? The biggest freak weather occurrence in history, because I wrote this silly little editorial? Of course, no one cared about the reality of the situation. I'd asked for it, and

A Tale of Two Settlements

Duchess -
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There are currently two big class action lawsuit settlements that are being kindly swept under the rug. The first involves former NFL players suing the NFL for injury from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE for short. The second is the class action lawsuit against NASDAQ over the Facebook IPO fiasco. CTE is

A Coward Dies But Once

Horatio Cornblower -
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And Frank Gifford was no coward. Frank Gifford's latest death was this past Sunday, when natural causes caught up with him at home in Greenwich, CT at the ripe old age of 84.  For a professional football player, that's like 187.  And to get to go out in your mid-80's by

The Republican Debates Open Thread

Darkest Timeline Zack Morris -
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Oh boy, folks.  It's time to watch 10 crazy people yell at each other tonight. Here is your list of lunatics, in descending order of poll results that don't in any way matter yet:   The Donald   Jeb (Yep Another) Bush Scott (Fuck the Poors) Walker Ben (No Matter What He Says, He's Somehow A Freaking