No place like first place
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In May, Troy Glaus was hibernating in Arizona, rehabilitating his right shoulder and wondering if he&#39;d ever play for the Angels again.
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One of these things is not like the others ...
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ST. LOUIS -- So I have this idea for a new reality TV show. Kind of a Survivor/Apprentice/Benefactor/Wife Swap thing, except without the competition part.
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By Anonymous  Risk-free areas are anathema to good design, say open-space watchdogs, who have railed against "bland, bleak and barrierridden spaces". CABE director Sarah Gaventa said many public spaces were created with a "worst-case scenario" in mind, not normal behaviour.
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Did I just attend one of the greatest events in sports, or was it the Booz Allen Classic? The Europeans&#39; dominance was so overwhelming from the very first session that the life was completely sucked out of this Ryder Cup, along with all of the energy.
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He&#39;ll scan through the results of the New York City Marathon and grimace. He&#39;ll search desperately for the first American finisher -- geez, where is the first American finisher?
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WILMINGTON, Delaware, isnâta popular spot with the Hollywood crowd. I imagine they would be a bit sniffy about what passes for local entertainment.
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Running the country is no game. It just sounds like one sometimes. In the Bush White House, sports are a metaphor for life. Better keep up if you want to play.
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This new hidden-word  game shows from GSN is refreshing in that it has no seeming  reality agenda at all. We don&#39;t meet the families of the  contestants. There are no alliances. America doesn&#39;t get to  vote on who survives to play another day, and the players can&#39;t  call friends and relatives on the phone for assistance. How  utterly retro is that?
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Worst to first is one of the hardest things to do in sports, but how do you go from winless to a Super Bowl berth with a diverse group of kids from a variety of backgrounds and neighborhoods, many of whom have never played football before entering high school?
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First-round Gold Cup matches produce predictable results for the US national team, especially in Norfolk County. The US team defeated El Salvador, 4-0, last night, improving its record to 21-0-1 in first-round games and to 15-1-4 at Foxboro and Gillette stadiums since 1991.
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Still listening to this classic Dead song.  And writing about it on Twitter... It's an MP3 that I ripped from the Mars Hotel album. Which I bought on CD many years ago. I've listened to this track about 1000 times. When I play it it puts a smile on my face. Because Cucamonga is a place with no pride, imho.  It's a joke, kind of like Truckin makes fun of New Orleans, a town that done the Dead wrong, once, a long time ago. Now if it were on vinyl I would have wore it out a long time ago. I'm sure there was a copy of the song on the disk Apple stole from me. There you have it RIAA. You can go after Apple. I'll support you because they stole from both of us. They have no right to listen to PofC. I imagine Steve Jobs and Phil Shindler sitting around smokin a doobie listening to Phil Lesh sing, thinking "Dave has good taste in music." BTW, Cucamonga is a suburb in southern CA. Near Ontario. Probably very non-descript. Might have been interesting 70 years ago. And that's your bedtime story for Saturday, boys and girls. Have a nice day, don't hit your brother (or sister) and be nice to the sitter!
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ORGET Red Sox-Yankees. Never mind the National League wild card. Oakland-Anaheim, Los Angeles-San Francisco? Who cares? The most compelling race left is the pursuit of last place in the National League East.
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Mark Martin has finished second in the points race in Nascar&#39;s premier series four times, so he knows the excruciating gut turn of coming close but not close enough.
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If there is a truth in advertising award for books, specifically book titles, S. L. Price's "Far Afield" is on my short list for 2007 honors. It is literally all over the place, and that's meant as an unqualified compliment.
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Tycho:  Positive Sony news here, at Penny Arcade?  I know, right?  We shall redouble our efforts.  The story all this was based on has been changed to say that none of it is true, or that very little of it is true (depending on who you ask), but if you're asking me I think the original story hit pretty close to the mark.  The alternative - which is to say, that xFire technology would be used for a single game and no others - suggests that their service will be another briar patch of vendor "interpretations" of an online community, which can't possibly be true.  I refuse to believe that, in this generation, they would leave something like this to chance.
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DALLAS, Feb. 5  /PRNewswire/ -- As fans across the country, we have all witnessed the voyage this gifted athlete has taken to the NFL Hall of Fame, but as Michael Irvin's pastor, I have been along for the ride and have seen first-hand how this special man discovered there's no place like home.