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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>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>
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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>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>A Blogosphere Q&amp;A&#8230; with me?  Ballhyped interviews their Sports Blogger of the Year</title>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2012/01/06/a-blogosphere-qa-with-me-ballhyped-interviews-their-sports-blogger-of-the-year/7991/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2011/10/25/they-said-what-another-glorious-week-of-sports-sound-bites-starring-albert-pujols-bob-stoops-derek-fisher-and-rex-ryan/7317/</link>
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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>
		<comments>http://sportschump.net/2011/08/21/fun-with-baseball-surnames-the-night-charlie-furbush-came-to-tampa/6973/#comments</comments>
		<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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