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		<title>A Blogosphere Q&amp;A&#8230; with me?  Ballhyped interviews their Sports Blogger of the Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BALLHYPED: Chris, first of all, congrats on winning the 2011 Sports Blog of the Year Tournament. How&#8217;s that new crown fit? SPORTSCHUMP: The crown fits nice and snug.  I promise not to let my head get too big that I’ll need to re-order one complete with trucker cap, mesh back to adjust for mullet, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They said what?  Another glorious week of sports sound-bites starring Albert Pujols, Bob Stoops, Derek Fisher and Rex Ryan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet Albert Pujols, new master of the understatement.  After slugging a record-tying, yet otherwise meaningless, three home runs on Saturday night, the St. Louis Cardinals superstar was asked about joining baseball legends Babe Ruth and Reggie Jackson as the only men to accomplish such a feat. “Those guys were great players,” said the stoic Pujols. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bud Selig cares not about baseball fans and I have proof</title>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2011/09/30/bud-selig-cares-not-about-baseball-fans-and-i-have-proof/7176/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a beef with the Commissioner. Not Commissioner Stern.  Not Commissioner Goodell.  This time around it’s the man, the myth, the-soon-to-be-retired-but-it-can’t-come-soon-enough Commissioner Selig. My complaints are not the usual you’re a former owner, crypt-keeper look-alike, turn a blind eye to steroid use, All-Star Game ending in a tie, type of beef. This is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays in, Sox out, miracles never cease</title>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2011/09/29/rays-in-sox-out-miracles-never-cease/7150/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday afternoon, 161 games into the Major League season with only one remaining, I was psyched at the possibility of attending a one-game playoff between the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field. After all, these kinds of games don’t come around very often.  With both Boston and Tampa boasting the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fair or foul?  Reconsidering human behavior when souvenirs fly our way</title>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2011/09/23/fair-or-foul-reconsidering-human-behavior-when-souvenirs-fly-our-way/7137/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who’s been watching the Rays chase down the Red Sox for the lone American League wild card spot knows Tampa Bay’s pitching staff (3.59 team ERA, 2nd best in the A.L.) has kept opposing hitters on their heels all season long. Lately, I’ve seen countless baseballs, and even several bats, careen dangerously into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun with baseball surnames: The night Charlie Furbush came to Tampa</title>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2011/08/21/fun-with-baseball-surnames-the-night-charlie-furbush-came-to-tampa/6973/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While writing a recap of Saturday night’s Tampa Bay Rays-Seattle Mariners game, most credible media outlets probably tastefully reported the facts with little or no room for imagination. Fortunately, this is no such website. We’ve been known to get a little sophomoric from time to time here at Sportschump.net like the day we did this…. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The case for spell check in Major League Baseball</title>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2011/08/02/the-case-for-spell-check-in-major-league-baseball-2/6879/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 03:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I self-edit, which can be a good thing… and a bad one. Such are the benefits of running one’s own website.  Maintaining one’s own viral venue with no producers, editors or censors in sight means I am allowed to speak my mind freely.  I answer only to you: the reader… and of course, my own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey, now.  You&#8217;re an All-Star.  So What?</title>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2011/07/15/hey-now-youre-an-all-star-so-what/6798/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mid-summer classic came and went last week with the sounds of crickets chirping loudly in the background. This year’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game was, wait for it… the least watched in league history, drawing a 6.9 rating and probably losing out to “America’s Got Talent (which you definitely won’t find at this year’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SportsChump makes the Majors, contemplates HGH:  A hypothetical fairy tale</title>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2011/07/08/sportschump-makes-the-majors-contemplates-hgh-a-hypothetical-fairy-tale/6780/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m about to turn 43. Roger Clemens is 48.  Mark McGwire is 47.  Barry Bonds and Rafael Palmeiro are both 46.  Sammy Sosa is 42 and Andy Pettitte is 39. These are the names most commonly associated with Major League Baseball’s steroid era.  For one reason or another &#8211; most likely to perpetuate their careers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Cuban pays it forward</title>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2011/06/17/mark-cuban-pays-it-forward/6631/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“These people depend upon tips for a living!” -Charles Grodin as Jonathan Mardukas in Midnight Run I tend bar for a living, which is exactly what makes this next story so enjoyable to write. As a server, there’s nothing more gratifying than receiving a generous tip after providing excellent service, which by the way, is [...]]]></description>
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