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The NEXT: Big Four-Sport City

By Ted Bauer

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

We're pretty sold on Tampa Bay as a future sports hub. Although we're sad former ESPN analyst Barry Melrose got axed as head of the Lightning, we'd bet the farm that the Rays win a World Series before 2012. Our view on the Bucs: University of Tennessee gives Jon Gruden huge money just to land a big name, he spurns them and a much-better-than-you-really-think-they-are Tampa team wins the NFC in the next three years. (OK, maybe they need a new quarterback.) Here's the problem: Tampa's only a thr ...

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