*Witness0708* #21

The "American" Pastime (The Integration of Sports)

03:26 PM ET 10.22

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Baseball is widely known throughout the world as the "American pastime". Well is it? Now we look at various teams throughout the MLB. First, the Red Sox, who recently won the ALCS and went to the World Series. I see 1....2....3....4....5...7...9..., a total of 9 players not born in the U.S. With a payroll of over $55,000,000. That is a lot of zeroes. And that is only one of the 30 teams in the MLB. People are being recruited from all over the world. And not just in baseball either. If you look around, many of our basketball or football players being draftedare not from the U.S. What…

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The (Used To Be) Good Name of Sports

05:38 PM ET 07.28

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We all remember it. Spending a weekend or vacation, watching our favorite players do their job, enjoying it. Sports were so......... innocent, there was no doping, using steroids, or other forms of cheating that are used today. People we used to trust and were our role models, recently, that "role model" position has been tarnished. Michael Vick, in a fall from glory, has been accused of dogfighting, a terrible crime, which has shocked the sports world. Barry "Barroid" Bonds, accused of doping for years to improve his stats. Yet he denies it. Floyd Landis, the "should…

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Sport Empire

10:04 AM ET 07.26

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Welcome to the Sports Empire! Here, you can talk about any kind of sport. If you are a cheater and I find out about it, then i will ban you from the group. That's it and if there are any suggestions, then leave a comment and I'll think about it.

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