homerderby.com - 10/30/2007
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So Alex Rodriguez upstaged the World Series. Big Whoop. The bigger story is that MLB's premiere event - The World Series - can be (and was) upstaged.
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THE MIDWAY: HOOPS COACHES, KOBE & UPSTAGING THE SERIES
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Why would anyone want to be an assistant college hoops coach? (The Meaningful Collateral)Could Kobe being moving to the nation's capital? The Magic 8-ball says check back later. (Deuce of Davenport)Lost in all of this A-Rod stuff is the fact that THE WORLD SERIES can be upstaged. (Home Run Derby) ...
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Boston's second title in four years has tilted the baseball world on its axis, and the new center of gravity in MLB is now at Fenway Park, not Yankee Stadium, and a new era in baseball has begun.
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The champagne-soaked carpets in the visitors' clubhouse at Coors Field had not yet dried, and the Boston Red Sox, with the World Series trophy in tow, had scarcely landed back at Logan Airport when the new champions ceded their space at the center of ...