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This Sporting Life: Strange bedfellows

By Jeff MacGregor
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Friday, October 9, 2009

Congratulations go out this morning to President Barack Obama, two-time Grammy winner and now a recipient of the equally prestigious Nobel Peace Prize. This latest award will surely inflame the usual precincts of our national commentariat, inasmuch as it has the feel of a league MVP trophy awarded halfway through spring training. But then all awards of this kind are subjective, even Rookie of the Year, compromised by human error and hidden agenda and wishful thinking, reflecting the long-shot h ...

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