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		<title>Why the “For Sale” Signs are Up in NASCAR</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrenmarshall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got off the phone with a long-time client who’s one of the few remaining brands in NASCAR who has the $ to be the primary sponsor of a driver for a full season. “How many races do you think we could sell without really hurting ourselves?” was the question. Yikes. Ten years ago, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sportsmtkgrevolution.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6517143&amp;post=596&amp;subd=sportsmtkgrevolution&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Losing is a Disease …</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judy Massuda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pittsburgh Pirates make me think of one thing, and only one thing, The Natural.  Losing is a disease …  as contagious as Polio. It has been a running joke around numerous water coolers and even on media outlets that the Pirates are trying to be demoted to a minor league team. Losing is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sportsmtkgrevolution.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6517143&amp;post=580&amp;subd=sportsmtkgrevolution&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Favre Would Have Been Better Off Caught With a Bong</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrenmarshall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you had asked Bus Cook, the agent for All-Pro Varicator Brett Favre, a few months ago whether he would have preferred his client spend yet another endless off-season deciding on whether to return for another season or take Michael Phelps’ place in the infamous Bong picture, I’m sure he would have laughed. However, according [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sportsmtkgrevolution.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6517143&amp;post=568&amp;subd=sportsmtkgrevolution&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American Sports Fans Have the Memories of Goldfish (except when it comes to Michael Vick)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrenmarshall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most fundamental law of American sports is that fans have the memories of goldfish when it comes to transgressions by their heroes. How many of us still remember the whole mess Kobe Bryant got into with the alleged assault on an under-aged chamber-maid in Colorado which was eventually settled out of court? Less than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sportsmtkgrevolution.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6517143&amp;post=558&amp;subd=sportsmtkgrevolution&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Pull the Plug on the Beckham Experiment</title>
		<link>http://sportsmtkgrevolution.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/time-to-pull-the-plug-on-the-beckham-experiment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darrenmarshall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wouldn’t you think that when your team’s alleged superstar is roundly booed and almost engages in fisticuffs with one of your own supporters that it’s time to pull the plug? That’s what happened to the LA Galaxy’s Prodigal Son on his return to the Home Depot Center against AC Milan on Sunday. For those of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sportsmtkgrevolution.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6517143&amp;post=547&amp;subd=sportsmtkgrevolution&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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