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The BCS finally has a stake driven through its heart, but the bowls and the big bucks still reign

Deep down, part of the appeal, or at least part of the deal, of being a college football fan is the corruption. You have to employ a situational moral sliding scale to fully embrace a sport where everyone gets paid but the players, and even a lot of those who eventually make NFL riches wind up broke because they didn't get much of an education.

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The Death's-Head of Wimbledon, Part 1

Strangeness in strawberry and cream at the All England Club By Brian Phillips on My first two days at Wimbledon were an incomprehensible hell of double-decker buses, foliage, screaming soccer fans, SIM cards, underground zones, shrubbery, security guards, and scaffolding.

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Photo finish examiner details how trials race was deemed a dead heat | Tim Layden | SI.com

EUGENE, Ore. -- At roughly 20 minutes past six last Saturday evening at Hayward Field, eight women ran the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials. The first three finishers would earn individual places on the U.S. team for the London Olympic Games.

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What we can learn from Vern Glenn's bumpy road back to the big time | June

Written by Ben Koo | 26 June 2012 There are two types of emails I dread getting as Bloguin's CEO. The first comes about every week from an ambitious high school student. I can usually decipher where it's going in the first three words as they are the only emails that start with "Dear Mr. Koo."

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