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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Dave Wiggins</title>
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		<title>Time for Jordan to get on with life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American media recently made a big to-do over Michael Jordan turning 50. Among noted outlets, Sports Illustrated devoted the greater part of an issue to His Airness. And ESPN the Magazine likewise allocated huge space to the beginning of Mike&#8217;s sixth decade on earth. It was all supposed to be a celebration, I think. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baseball needs to rethink Hall of Fame voting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Piazza, the former Los Angeles Dodger and New York Met great, hit more home runs (427) than any other catcher in MLB history. Piazza&#8217;s .308 career batting average is third among catchers all-time; his 1,335 RBIs are third-best for any backstop. And Mike was an All-Star 12 times. Thirteen catchers are currently enshrined in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kaepernick, Wilson usher in new era</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Howie Long, NFL analyst on Fox TV, said it best: The second weekend of this season&#8217;s playoffs will go down as a landmark in pro football history. It will be remembered as the point in time when the pros were forced to recognize their 75-year old quarterbacking philosophy had run its course. Since the post-World [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plenty to keep the hot stove cooking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Wiggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when all the MLB teams could be found east of the Mississippi River and north of Virginia, baseball junkies used to get their offseason fixes by sitting around yakking about downtime big league happenings — recent trades, news items, gossip and the like. In the dead of winter, it could get pretty darn cold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pacquiao being dragged down by shameless entourage of freeloaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Wiggins</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To all those who say Manny Pacquiao is finished because of his recent knockout loss, MAS says &#8220;Hogwash!&#8221; Manny hasn&#8217;t lost &#8220;it&#8221;. What he definitely needs to lose, though, is his humongous, concentration-sapping entourage. Those myriad hangers-on, just as much as the perfect storm of a punch, caused Pacquiao to lose his latest Las Vegas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bobcats try to put lost season behind</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MAS felt quite guilty seated on press row at a recent Charlotte-Portland NBA contest, courtesy of the home team Bobcats. You could even say he was on a literal guilt trip that had taken him across three U.S. state lines to North Carolina&#8217;s Queen City. Indulge me, please, while I explain. Last season, I found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish bring fresh air to BCS title game</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Wiggins</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Notre Dame&#8217;s &#8220;luck of the Irish&#8221; this football season has in turn brought good fortune to all non-partisan college grid fans. Getting every break in the book helped propel the Fighting Irish to an unbeaten record and a berth in the BCS national title tilt. Neutral fans have thus been spared another uninspiring all-Southeastern Conference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebration routines out of control</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Wiggins</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Former longtime Japan resident Dave Wiggins, who was a sports columnist and television analyst in Tokyo, is now a sports writer based in Vero Beach, Florida. He will be contributing a bi-monthly column on the North American sports scene to The Japan Times beginning today. Wiggins, who was a TV sportscaster in Hawaii for several [...]]]></description>
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