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		<title>SportsChump and Kid Sheraton talk Ozzie Guillen, family and freedom of speech</title>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2012/04/18/sportschump-and-kid-sheraton-talk-ozzie-guillen-family-and-freedom-of-speech/8951/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ozzie Guillen’s recent comments about Fidel Castro caused quite a stir. In case you hadn’t heard, in a recent Time Magazine interview, Venezuelan-born Ozzie Guillen, new manager of the Miami Marlins, was asked his feelings on Fidel Castro.  Little did Time know the shitstorm that question would create.  After Guillen said he admired Castro, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coaches Gone Wild: The unfortunate cases of Gregg Williams, Bobby Petrino and Stan Van Gundy</title>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2012/04/16/coaches-gone-wild-the-unfortunate-cases-of-gregg-williams-bobby-petrino-and-stan-van-gundy/8937/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What in the world is going on with coaches these days? You remember coaches, don’t you?  Those guys in the funny-looking, gym shorts with a whistle around their neck when you were little?  They placed your baseball on a tee, taught you how to catch a football or properly shoot a jump shot.  The guys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My journey to Augusta, Part Two:  Traaaaaveling</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so it’s been a while since I’ve flown commercial.  Traveling through Tampa International quickly reminded me why I drive everywhere. First of all, it was a good thing I arrived ninety minutes before takeoff, what with line after endless line.  I counted five different times within a twenty minute timespan that I had to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ripping paper/laughing baby: A metaphor for modern sports</title>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2012/03/30/ripping-paperlaughing-baby-a-metaphor-for-modern-sports/8765/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aside from being possibly the cutest thing you’ve ever seen on the internet, it occurred to me that the following video serves as the perfect metaphor for sports today. Here’s why. Follow closely, people, as I demonstrate how the simple ripping of a piece of paper and the hysterically laughing baby that ensues, represent all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons we love sports, Vols. 3 &amp; 4: Temper tantrums and the sound of inevitability</title>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2012/03/15/reasons-we-love-sports-vols-3-4-temper-tantrums-and-the-sound-of-inevitability/8664/</link>
		<comments>http://sportschump.net/2012/03/15/reasons-we-love-sports-vols-3-4-temper-tantrums-and-the-sound-of-inevitability/8664/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reason Number Three: Fire Aside for being known for his thick, often unintelligible and frequently vulgar, Venezuelan accent, Ozzie Guillen is at it once again… and the season hasn’t even started! In 2005, Guillen garnered instant hero status in Chicago after managing the White Sox to their first World Series title since World War I.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SportsChump not so proudly presents the Danica Patrick Chart of Ever-Increasing Annoyance</title>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2012/03/05/sportschump-not-so-proudly-presents-the-danica-patrick-chart-of-ever-increasing-annoyance/8583/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people just drive me batty.  I like to consider myself a pretty patient person but as I get a little longer in the tooth, I’m finding out there’s a lot more crap I won’t tolerate… and a lot of people that just annoy me. As a result, I have invented a system to help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The mishandled Ryan Braun drug test and the hypocrisy of Major League Baseball</title>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2012/02/24/the-mishandled-ryan-braun-drug-test-and-the-hypocrisy-of-major-league-baseball/8515/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Major League Baseball is a joke. Okay, now that I’ve got that off my chest, let me repeat myself. Major League Baseball is a joke. Somewhere, lost in all the incessant Jeremy Lin coverage that ESPN has been shoving down our throats, we lost sight of the fact that last season’s Most Valuable Player was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gratuitous Perpetuation of Racial Profi-Lin: Headlines we hope we’ll never see</title>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2012/02/20/gratuitous-perpetuation-of-racial-profi-lin-headlines-we-hope-we%e2%80%99ll-never-see/8467/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have repeatedly discussed on this website, the outright need for political correctness, not only in sports and media, but in our everyday lives.  While annoying and superfluous to some, these parameters exist mainly to protect us from ourselves and our own ignorance. The meteoric rise of Asian-American basketball player Jeremy Lin has just re-opened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the real Cal Ripken please stand up?</title>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2012/02/03/will-the-real-cal-ripken-please-stand-up/8364/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, I can’t believe I just realized this.  I guess I’m a little slow on the draw. I’ll admit to enjoying mindless, guilty pleasures every now and then.  Don’t hold it against me but I used to watch my fair share of Jerry Springer back in the day.  Who didn’t?  Like most superficial males, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who needs heavyweight boxing when we have Federer, Nadal and Djokovic?</title>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2012/01/30/who-needs-heavyweight-boxing-when-we-have-federer-nadal-and-djokovic/8289/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soon after his retirement, basketball junkies everywhere craved the second coming of Michael, so much so that we dubbed every player after him who could jump out of the gym “The Next Jordan.”  We soon learned it took a little more than hops to become the next MJ.  Little did we know that athlete would [...]]]></description>
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