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For the first four innings, it looked as if Joe Blanton was well on his way to showing folks in his first start of the year that he is not the presumed weakness in the Phillies vaunted starting rotation.

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Kimberly Bell, her voice cracking, looked out at the court room and talked about the final stretch of her nine-year relationship with Barry Bonds. The greatest hitter of his era threatened “to cut my head off and leave me in a ditch,” she said. “More than once.”

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You know your NCAA Tournament bracket is busted up if you didn’t pick VCU, Florida State or Richmond to be in the Sweet 16. Your bracket is definitely on life support if you had the University of Pittsburgh winning the national championship or at least making it to the Final Four.

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With the NFL lockout in full swing, that famed labor/management love fest that once existed for more than a decade between late NFL Players Association head Gene Upshaw and former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue is a relic of a distance past.

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Right now, the pace of negotiations between the National Football League and the NFL Players Association have this writer believing that It might be a good long time before you hear the words: “Are You Ready for Some Football?”

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As the players and owners figure out a way to divide billions in revenue as part of a new collective bargaining agreement, one would hope that both sides could agree on the subject of player safety and why it should be a priority for those who are currently playing and who have retired from the game.

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The mighty Pittsburgh Steelers, equipped with a record six Super Bowl titles, a 14-4 record, the No. 2 AFC seed and a veteran roster on the verge of three championships in the past six seasons, are underdogs for Super Bowl XLV.

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All of this sniping, fun or otherwise, makes sense since the NFL’s oldest rivalry has had 92 years to simmer. Vince Lombardi, Don Hutson, Bart Starr, Ray Nitschke, Bronko Nagurski, Dick Butkus, Mike Ditka and Walter Payton — all of those names and more add to the rich history…

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Now that head coach Andy Reid and the Philadelphia Eagles are watching the NFL playoffs from their La-Z-Boys at home thanks to last weekend’s loss to the Green Bay Packers, it’s time to engage in our annual rite of winter for the last 12 years—the “Why did this happen again?” Ritual.

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Today’s column is for Eagles fans who considered suicide after witnessing the Birds last two losses of the regular season coming into Sunday’s NFC Wildcard matchup against the Green Bay Packers at Lincoln Financial Field.

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