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    A few first-round surprises

    By Marc Connolly
    ESPN Soccernet.com

    Thursday, October 21, 2004

    There's no doubt that Boston will be the place to be this coming weekend. Red Sox Nation will try and recover from the collective hangover and late nights it happily endured during the ALCS and turn Fenway into a virtual snakepit for the World Series opener on Saturday night. The next afternoon, the Patriots face what should be their most difficult task yet when the 5-0 New York Jets stride into Foxboro hoping to end the almost-unfathomable, 20-game winning streak of Bill Belichick's squad in ...

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