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This Sporting Life: I got no strings

By Jeff MacGregor
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Monday, June 8, 2009

Another great week for sports. Powerful, lively, colorful, historical. From Istanbul to Paris to Los Angeles, it was a great week by any metric. But it wasn't quite what you expected, was it? No matter what you were pulling for. Or whom. It is both the brilliance and the curse of sports to honor its promises sideways; to deliver about half of what you thought you wanted, and about half of what you expected about half of the time. So we got Kobe in the Finals -- but without LeBron; Federer i ...

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