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Yankees, U.S. Ryder Cup team look awfully similar

By Ron Sirak
Golf World

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Those frustrated souls who follow sports or politics know the veracity of the phrase: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics." The fact that it's not even certain who first uttered those words -- Benjamin Disraeli, Mark Twain or someone else -- adds even more irony to their assertion. Numbers take the skin temperature, but they don't record the heartbeat. Just ask the New York Yankees, who last week became the U.S. Ryder Cup team. Virtually anyone allowed access to a l ...

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