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This is as good as it gets

By Mark Kreidler
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, December 9, 2005

The short list of the most difficult things to do in sports almost compiles itself. Winning a championship is hard, but repeating as a champion is infinitely harder. Keeping a roster together for any length of time, through salary caps and free agency and dull-normal change, has become the great Sisyphean task of the age. For an athlete, figuring out how and when to retire is a classic brain-twister. Go too soon and you risk leaving both production and money on the table; go too late and you be ...

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