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		<title>Guest author hopes soccer/rugby talk does not get lost in translation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Dymock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We take a break from talking about football to talk about, well… football.  Just not of the oblong variety. The internet is a strange place.  You can be shopping on eBay for random goods when all of a sudden, some former rugby player from across the pond finds your website, realizes you’ve never so much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Beckham hires help</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following in the embarrassing footsteps of Eugene Robinson, Eddie Murphy and Hugh Grant, David Beckham has become the most recent star to be accused of attaining ahem… “hired help.” In response to an In Touch Weekly article, which accuses one of the world’s most recognizable athletes of sexual infidelity, Mr. Beckham has allegedly given his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defending the flop: A practical look at bending the rules in sports</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much of modern sport has boiled down to an athlete ‘selling the call.’  Whether it’s a soccer player tugging a jersey, a basketball player feigning contact to warrant a charge or a catcher moving his mitt back into the strike zone to make a ball look like a strike, all these techniques have become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chumpservations, Vol. 14: John Wall, Wimbledon, Texas Rangers, World Cup soccer, Landon Donovan, Steve Smith and Dick Vitale impressions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it… The Washington Wizards selected John Wall, Kentucky’s freshman point guard phenom, first overall in the 2010 NBA Draft.  SportsChump can neither confirm nor deny whether he’ll make any less in Washington than he did while playing at Kentucky.  Before Wizards fans get too excited about the pick, they should note [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fourth of July in Brazil puts U.S. Soccer in perspective</title>
		<link>http://sportschump.net/2009/07/02/fourth-of-july-in-brazil-puts-us-soccer-in-perspective/756/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Humpherys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I spent one glorious summer in Rio de Janeiro many years ago.  While still in graduate school, I was fortunate enough to have been awarded a scholarship to study Portuguese overseas.   Mine was the typical exchange program where you live with a host family and take classes at a local university.  Technically, I was [...]]]></description>
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