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NFL betting: Early-season underdogs the way to go? (Covers.com)
Most money is placed on favorites, and the figures can run as high as 67 percent of the betting public taking the better team and giving the points. The number is less important than betting on their favorite team. As money is laid down on favorites,...
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GOBIS: Sights and sounds of summer (The Sun Chronicle)
Ponderous thoughts while ridding my shoes of leftover sand and summer musings. Nothing beats the smell of being stuck behind a garbage truck on a hot and humid day ...
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Brewers, Rays good stories - but would they make a good Series? (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
Around this time of year, the job of a general manager in Milwaukee is usually to explain how promising the young talent brought up for the final month of the season is and to remind fans they can still get great bratwurst at the ballpark.
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TAYLOR: Lay off the 'boring' talk (Hollister Free Lance)
At a youth sports convention I attended, I recall the keynote speaker mentioning that if you thought a particular sport was boring or you didn't like it, chances were highly likely that you couldn't play that sport, had a bad experience with that sport or just didn't give it a chance to prove itself.
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Pucko: The Unkindest Cuts (R News)
The following does not reflect the views of R News or its parent company Time Warner Cable. Last week high school athletes all across Section Five fell by the wayside. Kids who made sports a major part of their lives found themselves looking for other things to do. It was cut down day.
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Joe Sullivan's Column As I See 'Em: Closing the book on horseplay (New Hampshire Union Leader)
The columnist learned a costly lesson on the wonderful word of bookmaking.
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Sports Fodder: ESPN - Your authority on all things college football (The Record-Courier)
Sports fodder for a Friday morning . . .
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Trying times (Centre Daily Times)
UNIVERSITY PARK — Frustrating, trying, challenging or difficult.
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John Crace's digested read: Silks by Dick Francis and Felix Francis (Guardian Unlimited)
John Crace's digested read: I decided to become a barrister after someone pointed out that jockeys wore silk and barristers took silk so they were quite similar really
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Theater Review: ‘Bleacher Bums’ (The Epoch Times)
This has been one heck of an exciting baseball year for Chicago and, with that in mind, the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre is presenting "Bleacher Bums," a show that takes us back to the 1970s and the craziness that existed at the Cubs’ Wrigley Field and, in particular, in the right field bleachers.
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