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<title><![CDATA[Dave Kindred Monthly RSS]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Better Than Fiction]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/45688384</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:16:38 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/45688384</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In the movie '42,' a key scene involves Pee Wee Reese putting his arm around Jackie Robinson in a show of support on the field in Cincinnati. The only problem is ... that may not have happened. The truth is just as moving, if maybe too subtle for Hollywood.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[In the movie '42,' a key scene involves Pee Wee Reese putting his arm around Jackie Robinson in a show of support on the field in Cincinnati. The only problem is ... that may not have happened. The truth is just as moving, if maybe too subtle for Hollywood.]]></content:encoded>
<dc:creator>Dave Kindred</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Saving College Basketball]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/43400022</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:06:47 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/43400022</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Something has gone blank in college basketball's soul. It became sadly clear last March. I was done caring... until I watched Brett Comer with the ball. Who's Brett Comer? He's the guy whose subversive, improvisational style is saving this tournament.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Something has gone blank in college basketball's soul. It became sadly clear last March. I was done caring... until I watched Brett Comer with the ball. Who's Brett Comer? He's the guy whose subversive, improvisational style is saving this tournament.]]></content:encoded>
<dc:creator>Dave Kindred</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Teenage Wasteland]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/42994322</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:46:45 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/42994322</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Since at least the time of Aristotle, adults have been trying to figure out what goes on in the teenage brain. Now, thanks to new brain-imaging technology, psychologists are smarter about what leads to heinous behavior like that of the Steubenville defendants.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Since at least the time of Aristotle, adults have been trying to figure out what goes on in the teenage brain. Now, thanks to new brain-imaging technology, psychologists are smarter about what leads to heinous behavior like that of the Steubenville defendants.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Give the Man His Due]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/42256846</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:39:50 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/42256846</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jerry Tarkanian belongs in the basketball Hall of Fame. In 31 seasons at Long Beach, UNLV and Fresno State, Tarkanian's teams won 778 games. And he called the NCAA corrupt long before such thinking was fashionable -- but not without consequences.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Jerry Tarkanian belongs in the basketball Hall of Fame. In 31 seasons at Long Beach, UNLV and Fresno State, Tarkanian's teams won 778 games. And he called the NCAA corrupt long before such thinking was fashionable -- but not without consequences.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Take This Story and Shove It]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/41787344</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:51:00 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/41787344</guid>
<description><![CDATA[California coach Mike Montgomery's shove of star player Allen Crabbe is an easy target for criticism, and he's been loudly condemned for it. But this type of minor incident is just a petty distraction from the NCAA's larger problems.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[California coach Mike Montgomery's shove of star player Allen Crabbe is an easy target for criticism, and he's been loudly condemned for it. But this type of minor incident is just a petty distraction from the NCAA's larger problems.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA['This Oscar Pistorius?']]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/41644588</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:41:31 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/41644588</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What this writer knew about Oscar Pistorius, everyone knew. We think we know the athletes we follow. But the shocking news out of South Africa about the double-amputee Olympian's alleged murder of his girlfriend exposes the truth -- we knew nothing.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[What this writer knew about Oscar Pistorius, everyone knew. We think we know the athletes we follow. But the shocking news out of South Africa about the double-amputee Olympian's alleged murder of his girlfriend exposes the truth -- we knew nothing.]]></content:encoded>
<dc:creator>Dave Kindred</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Time is a Vandal]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/41430888</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:20:21 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/41430888</guid>
<description><![CDATA[London's Daily Mail has reported that Muhammad Ali is near death. Yes, Ali has Parkinson's disease, likely the result of brain damage suffered in the ring. Yes, sunrise has become sunset. Yes, time is a vandal. Yet a friend says he is still uniquely 'Ali.']]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[London's Daily Mail has reported that Muhammad Ali is near death. Yes, Ali has Parkinson's disease, likely the result of brain damage suffered in the ring. Yes, sunrise has become sunset. Yes, time is a vandal. Yet a friend says he is still uniquely 'Ali.']]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Truth or Dare]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/41118790</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 01:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/41118790</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Some hoaxsters make up stories for money, others for pride or for glory. Whatever happened to making up stories just for the hell of it? We remember the Corbet Comets and the mighty Plainfield Teachers College football team.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Some hoaxsters make up stories for money, others for pride or for glory. Whatever happened to making up stories just for the hell of it? We remember the Corbet Comets and the mighty Plainfield Teachers College football team.]]></content:encoded>
<dc:creator>Dave Kindred</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Beauty and the Brent]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40891190</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:02:14 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40891190</guid>
<description><![CDATA[They pay him to talk on television, so what was Brent Musburger supposed to do when they turned the camera on Miss Alabama, just stare? Well, maybe if you&rsquo;re 73 years old, as Musburger is, and Miss Alabama is 23, as Katharine Webb is, maybe you don&rsquo;t go all Hugh Hefner on her.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[They pay him to talk on television, so what was Brent Musburger supposed to do when they turned the camera on Miss Alabama, just stare? Well, maybe if you&amp;rsquo;re 73 years old, as Musburger is, and Miss Alabama is 23, as Katharine Webb is, maybe you don&amp;rsquo;t go all Hugh Hefner on her.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Out with the Slurs]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40849024</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:30:33 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40849024</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Why do nicknames like "Redskins" and logos like the "Screaming Savage" still exist in the sports world? You can bring up all the polls and surveys you want, but those words and images are derogatory, offensive racial slurs.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Why do nicknames like "Redskins" and logos like the "Screaming Savage" still exist in the sports world? You can bring up all the polls and surveys you want, but those words and images are derogatory, offensive racial slurs.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Shot Heard 'Round the World]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40832748</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:25:17 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40832748</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jadeveon Clowney's tackle on Vincent Smith in Tuesday's Outback Bowl came at warp-speed from such a distant place in the universe that the Michigan tailback barely knew what hit him. It was also as pure a demonstration of football's truest nature as we&rsquo;re likely to see.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Jadeveon Clowney's tackle on Vincent Smith in Tuesday's Outback Bowl came at warp-speed from such a distant place in the universe that the Michigan tailback barely knew what hit him. It was also as pure a demonstration of football's truest nature as we&amp;rsquo;re likely to see.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[The Sportswriter's Sportswriter]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40794852</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:41:59 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40794852</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Oscar Madison, the slovenly half of "The Odd Couple," was brought to vivid life by actor Jack Klugman, who died on Christmas Eve. Oscar gambled, drank, smoked. He was messy, crude and grumpy. He was a sportswriter's sportswriter.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Oscar Madison, the slovenly half of "The Odd Couple," was brought to vivid life by actor Jack Klugman, who died on Christmas Eve. Oscar gambled, drank, smoked. He was messy, crude and grumpy. He was a sportswriter's sportswriter.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Admit it]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40773706</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:00:24 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40773706</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I loved 2012. It was the year Lance Armstrong got his. The year all the lying, the cheating, the exploitation of cancer came to an end and Armstrong&rsquo;s world collapsed. But we're still waiting for the former Tour de France champion to tell the truth.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[I loved 2012. It was the year Lance Armstrong got his. The year all the lying, the cheating, the exploitation of cancer came to an end and Armstrong&amp;rsquo;s world collapsed. But we're still waiting for the former Tour de France champion to tell the truth.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[The Role Of A Lifetime]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40763810</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:03:34 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40763810</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Larry Merchant began, 35 years ago, talking like a man who&rsquo;d been to every ringside in every city for every title fight and not only had heard all the answers, he&rsquo;d asked all the questions. So he talked the same way at the end as he did at the start.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Larry Merchant began, 35 years ago, talking like a man who&amp;rsquo;d been to every ringside in every city for every title fight and not only had heard all the answers, he&amp;rsquo;d asked all the questions. So he talked the same way at the end as he did at the start.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Operating System]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40469422</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:30:54 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40469422</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Grinnell point guard Jack Taylor scored 138 points. It's ludicrous. 'Maybe not a great shooter,' Taylor's coach, David Arseneault Jr., said. 'But a great scorer.' The 138 was possible because of Grinnell&rsquo;s unique run-and-gun play. They call it &ldquo;The System.&rdquo;]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Grinnell point guard Jack Taylor scored 138 points. It's ludicrous. 'Maybe not a great shooter,' Taylor's coach, David Arseneault Jr., said. 'But a great scorer.' The 138 was possible because of Grinnell&amp;rsquo;s unique run-and-gun play. They call it &amp;ldquo;The System.&amp;rdquo;]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Teddy and the General]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40309606</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:17:06 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40309606</guid>
<description><![CDATA[No FBI agent, wearing a shirt or not, searched my email this week, but I did -- and I found two notes to Paula Broadwell, written on Aug. 31, before she became, yes, Paula Broadwell. I wanted to ask General Petraeus about Teddy Roosevelt.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[No FBI agent, wearing a shirt or not, searched my email this week, but I did -- and I found two notes to Paula Broadwell, written on Aug. 31, before she became, yes, Paula Broadwell. I wanted to ask General Petraeus about Teddy Roosevelt.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Low Blow]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40256618</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:47:24 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40256618</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Most concussions are the results of the accidental contact that is inevitable in a game of collisions. But hits like the one that the Texans' Tim Dobbins laid on the Bears' Jay Cutler are premeditated and vicious in their design and execution.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Most concussions are the results of the accidental contact that is inevitable in a game of collisions. But hits like the one that the Texans' Tim Dobbins laid on the Bears' Jay Cutler are premeditated and vicious in their design and execution.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Call a Number]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40206424</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:29:36 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40206424</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Darrell Royal, University of Texas legend, would shout out: 'Red light! Red light!' So you stopped and listened. Not because Royal made you, but because he was Darrell Royal and you weren&rsquo;t. He had won all those games. He made Texas football big.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Darrell Royal, University of Texas legend, would shout out: 'Red light! Red light!' So you stopped and listened. Not because Royal made you, but because he was Darrell Royal and you weren&amp;rsquo;t. He had won all those games. He made Texas football big.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[The Gold Standard]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40203078</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:06:49 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40203078</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Why Notre Dame? The gold helmets. The fight song. Manti Te'o. Ronald Reagan as George Gipp in 'Knute Rockne All American.' Having the Irish back as the benchmark of excellence would finally restore order to the college football universe.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Why Notre Dame? The gold helmets. The fight song. Manti Te'o. Ronald Reagan as George Gipp in 'Knute Rockne All American.' Having the Irish back as the benchmark of excellence would finally restore order to the college football universe.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Eyes on the Storm]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40133890</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:49:54 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/40133890</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We sat at home, warm and safe, most of us, and we watched the Giants defeat the Tigers, and we saw the hurricane&rsquo;s path on CNN, and those of us who think this way thought its path looked a lot like a right-hander's knee-buckling curve ball.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[We sat at home, warm and safe, most of us, and we watched the Giants defeat the Tigers, and we saw the hurricane&amp;rsquo;s path on CNN, and those of us who think this way thought its path looked a lot like a right-hander's knee-buckling curve ball.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[How Far Can A Pumpkin Fly?]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/39978368</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:44:55 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/39978368</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Q-36 weighs 18 tons. Its barrel is 110 feet long. It&rsquo;s painted in the military&rsquo;s dark olive green. It's appeared on the "Late Show With David Letterman." Its job? Launching pumpkins more than 4,000 feet. Say hello to the competitive world of Punkin Chuckin.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Q-36 weighs 18 tons. Its barrel is 110 feet long. It&amp;rsquo;s painted in the military&amp;rsquo;s dark olive green. It's appeared on the "Late Show With David Letterman." Its job? Launching pumpkins more than 4,000 feet. Say hello to the competitive world of Punkin Chuckin.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't Hate the Player]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/39856212</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:04:56 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/39856212</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Second basemen have always been in harm&rsquo;s way, and that&rsquo;s a good thing. So we can argue all we want, but Matt Holliday's slide into Marco Scutaro in Game 2 of the NLCS is how the game should be played -- borderline illegal but within the unwritten code of play that every major leaguer understands.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Second basemen have always been in harm&amp;rsquo;s way, and that&amp;rsquo;s a good thing. So we can argue all we want, but Matt Holliday's slide into Marco Scutaro in Game 2 of the NLCS is how the game should be played -- borderline illegal but within the unwritten code of play that every major leaguer understands.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Every Sportswriter's Best Friend]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/39749362</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:19:58 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/39749362</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Analyst? PR? No, Beano Cook worked at being Beano Cook, and nobody ever did a job better. He died Thursday at 81. It didn&rsquo;t happen the way he wanted. He wanted to go at the end of a college football season and only after he knew the national champion.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Analyst? PR? No, Beano Cook worked at being Beano Cook, and nobody ever did a job better. He died Thursday at 81. It didn&amp;rsquo;t happen the way he wanted. He wanted to go at the end of a college football season and only after he knew the national champion.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[The Sounds of Sports]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/39622710</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:00:54 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/39622710</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In Detroit, the A&rsquo;s whined because a Tigers pitcher kissed the baseball. In Kansas City, Chiefs fans celebrated when their QB was injured. Across the Atlantic, an rugby player required an unfortunate surgery. The sounds of sports are awfully similar across the world.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[In Detroit, the A&amp;rsquo;s whined because a Tigers pitcher kissed the baseball. In Kansas City, Chiefs fans celebrated when their QB was injured. Across the Atlantic, an rugby player required an unfortunate surgery. The sounds of sports are awfully similar across the world.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA['He'll Fight This With All His Heart']]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/39430400</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:22:51 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/39430400</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Chuck Pagano makes you smile, the things he says. You smile, hearing the things people say about Pagano. He's a football lifer who has earned the love and respect of many in the game and outside of it. His diagnosis of cancer was felt throughout the league, but everyone believes he'll fight it 'with all his heart.']]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Chuck Pagano makes you smile, the things he says. You smile, hearing the things people say about Pagano. He's a football lifer who has earned the love and respect of many in the game and outside of it. His diagnosis of cancer was felt throughout the league, but everyone believes he'll fight it 'with all his heart.']]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Pushing the Envelope]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/38652734</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:55:00 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/38652734</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It's one thing for an NFL star like Brendon Ayanbadejo to lobby for same-sex marriage. And the tolerant among us cheered when Vikings punter Chris Kluwe beat down a homophobic Maryland legislator with an open letter. But Jamie Kuntz's story test the limits of tolerance.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[It's one thing for an NFL star like Brendon Ayanbadejo to lobby for same-sex marriage. And the tolerant among us cheered when Vikings punter Chris Kluwe beat down a homophobic Maryland legislator with an open letter. But Jamie Kuntz's story test the limits of tolerance.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Fathers and Sons: The Sports Bond]]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/38304614</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:37:07 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/38304614</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Fathers and sons are at the heart of sports, whether it's the Mantles or the Ripkens or the Mannings or the everyday dad and son playing catch in the backyard. I think of my dad every day, but it wasn't until recently that I came to view him as much more than that.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Fathers and sons are at the heart of sports, whether it's the Mantles or the Ripkens or the Mannings or the everyday dad and son playing catch in the backyard. I think of my dad every day, but it wasn't until recently that I came to view him as much more than that.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA['He Likes to Throw it Downfield']]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/37989358</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:21:42 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/37989358</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The most prolific quarterback in one game in football history isn't Peyton Manning or Tom Brady. It's Eureka's Sam Durley, who rewrote the history books by throwing for 736 yards, making the team known only for Ronald Reagan memorable for something else.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[The most prolific quarterback in one game in football history isn't Peyton Manning or Tom Brady. It's Eureka's Sam Durley, who rewrote the history books by throwing for 736 yards, making the team known only for Ronald Reagan memorable for something else.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA['I'm a Good Guy Now']]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/37862866</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:04:29 EDT</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/37862866</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sonny Vaccaro was the 'sneaker pimp' the NCAA chased for years because he helped coaches and agents get rich off the backs of young players. In the last five years though, Vaccaro re-cast himself as an advocate for players. But the NCAA is, again, hounding him.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Sonny Vaccaro was the 'sneaker pimp' the NCAA chased for years because he helped coaches and agents get rich off the backs of young players. In the last five years though, Vaccaro re-cast himself as an advocate for players. But the NCAA is, again, hounding him.]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA['We Will Never Accept Silver']]></title>
<link>http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/37265016</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The most famous game in hoops history didn't include Magic or Wilt or MJ. No, the most famous game ever happened 40 years ago in Munich, when the '72 U.S. Olympic team was robbed of a gold medal against the Soviet Union. Those 12 Americans reunited this past weekend to reflect on memories good and bad.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[The most famous game in hoops history didn't include Magic or Wilt or MJ. No, the most famous game ever happened 40 years ago in Munich, when the '72 U.S. Olympic team was robbed of a gold medal against the Soviet Union. Those 12 Americans reunited this past weekend to reflect on memories good and bad.]]></content:encoded>
<dc:creator>Dave Kindred</dc:creator>
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