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Up Front

By Stephen A. Smith

Thursday, December 4, 2008

The beauty of being a sports journalist is that you get to meet a whole bunch of interesting people. Ya know, the folks your average Joe the Plumber never meets unless a member of the security detail misses an assignment or a friend of a friend comes up with floor seats. Yet here I am in the midst of a season that's supposed to make me feel jolly, and instead all I feel is that something's missing. Sure, I've met everyone from Michael Jordan to Joe Montana, Jay Leno to David Letterman, Beyon ...

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