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Who needs the Olympics? Not New York

By Ray Ratto
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, July 6, 2005

New York weeps today. Yeah, right. More likely, New York is chanting, "Rog-ge Stinks! Rog-ge Stinks!" Or even likelier, New York is doing nothing whatsoever. The 2012 Olympics are not coming to America. If George Steinbrenner fires his bullpen coach, that gets the back page. It always has, it always will, and no amount of synchronized swimming is going to change that. Of course, some New Yorkers -- Mayor Michael (I Need Me A Legacy) Bloomberg, for one -- were disappointed by IOC President Ja ...

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