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Ultimate sports showdown

By Dan Shanoff
Page 2

Monday, September 27, 2004

The rancor of "red vs. blue" has nothin' on sports fans. In our current environment of bitter, evenly-split partisan politics, the emergence of two diametrically opposed "parties" of sports fans is a natural extension. "Purists" and "Progressives" have been battling over the state of our country's sports union since sports were invented, since the first person made a suggestion to change a rule, define a statistic, modify a uniform or bust out a piece of contemporary technology while celebrati ...

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