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A Non-Traditional Sports Fan in America - ISC #0037

02:56 AM ET 11.20

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Fall is in full bloom, and we are fast approaching
the holiday season. Baseball has recently completed its annual rite of
championship. College football is in its stretch drive, and the hoopsters
of academia are just getting their seasons into swing to bombard the
market with action on the amateur front. The NFL has people ready for
their traditional Thanksgiving games in sandwiched between a few weekends
that will yield the inevitable buzz from all corners. The NBA and NHL are
back in action, the latter almost a quarter of the way through its season
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Oregon @ Stanford - Aftermath

02:48 AM ET 11.09

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Gerhart Rings in Midnight Against Cinderella Duck Defense
by Zach Bigalke

Oregon Ducks 42, Stanford Cardinal 51

Coming into the season, the defense was supposed to be the ugly stepsister in the Oregon Ducks' Cinderella story. Traditionally, high-flying offenses have been hampered in Eugene by a bend-but-don't-break defense that far too often bends too far. After losing several key players to graduation and the NFL, everyone knew that any success Oregon enjoyed in 2009 would be dependent on Nick Aliotti preparing his new charges for the battle.

For the first…

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A Non-Traditional Sports Fan in America - ISC #0035

01:46 AM ET 11.06

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What do Nick Batum and Lionel Messi, Alex Rodriguez and Yao Ming, etc. etc. have in common? They've all traveled a long, long way from home to where the competition is fiercest and the paychecks are biggest in their respective sports. No longer are the teams we root for truly representative of the communities in which we live, as the rapid globalization of the planet leads to homogenization and a cosmopolitan appearance to most every enterprise.It's funny how a simple car ride can spark such discussion, especially when it is being undertaken to go to a sporting event. I had the good fortune to…

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