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“There are lots of good stories in the NFL Draft,” Trey Wingo said late in ESPN’s Sunday coverage of the draft’s second day. “But you’d be hard-pressed to find one better than this.” He spoke, of course, of the U.S. Military Academy’s Caleb Campbell, a defensive back drafted with the 218th pick by the Detroit Lions. But that phrase came at ... [link]

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The Roundup: The Sordid (and Alleged) Affair Between Roger Clemens and Mindy McCready
Published 4/28/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
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