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By Luke Cyphers

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

In the midst of covering the U.S. Olympic Trials, I was asked on a radio show to explain why anyone should care about track and field. Why pay attention to a sport that has let us down with its drug use time and time again, that gives us athletes to root for once every four years? How can any of it possibly matter at the same time that the ins and outs of A-Rod's home life are right there for the dissecting? The sounds of the Trials give the answers. On the final day of the meet, the voices ...

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