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    Skeletons in the closet

    By Andrea Canales

    Monday, November 28, 2005

    Playing in their home stadium, the Los Angeles Galaxy won the 2005 U.S. Open Cup, the nation's oldest tournament and one of the two domestic cups Major League Soccer teams compete for every year. Yet bizarrely, a group of supporters began a postgame chant for the winning coach, Steve Sampson. "Fire Sampson! Fire Sampson!" Probably few coaches, if any, would hear cries for their dismissal on a trophy-winning night, but Sampson had a history that followed him to Los Angeles. His notoriety was n ...

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