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		<title>Barcelona&#8217;s Handling of Busquets Situation Proves It&#8217;s No Longer &#8220;Mas Que Un Club&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 17:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil W. Blackmon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Neil W. Blackmon “Mas Que Un Club” &#8211; Club Motto of FC Barcelona This article was originally going to run Sunday or Saturday evening, before the announcement by FIFA that Barcelona midfielder and Spanish international Sergio Busquets was cleared of wrongdoing for alleged racist statements made to Real Madrid’s Marcelo in the second leg [...]]]></description>
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		<title> C&#8217;mon Man ! Open Letter to FIFA Regarding Club World Cup </title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Levy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear FIFA, First, let me start off by saying I’m a big fan! I love that World Cup thing you put together once every four years, and y’know, a bunch of other soccer and such. Recently I see you’ve been real busy doing things like picking sites for future tournaments and dealing with issues like [...]]]></description>
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		<title> Qatar. Americans Should Remember 1994 and Get Over It. </title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Clary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of sounding like American-hating, socialist-sympathizing, Hispanic-espousing, nothing-new-to-be-saying Paul Gardner…it’s time for U.S. soccer fans to get over it. This decision that FIFA made on the 2022 World Cup: holding the World Cup in a country that could not qualify on its own, a country without a world-class player from inside its borders, [...]]]></description>
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		<title> What Now For US Soccer? Easy. Be Champions. </title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McElroy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clint Dempsey]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Landon Donovan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We lost the bid.  To a country which (as other writers have eloquently explained) has absolutely no business being in the World Cup, much less hosting the World Cup.  I am really, really getting tired, however, of the defeatist attitude of American soccer fans.  FIFA is a corrupt, stupid organization which shames the game.  We [...]]]></description>
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		<title> Puck&#8217;s Friday Happy Hour: Russia ? Qatar ?What The Hell Happened Edition ? </title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Puck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back into another Happy Hour. I hope your Turkey day was excellent, but enough of the pleasantries, it’s time to get down to brass tax. Yesterday was clearly the worst day in US soccer since the devastating loss to Ghana last summer. First, a quick comment on the 2018 selection. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title> Qatar 2022 The Culmination of Blatter&#8217;s Flawed, Corrupt Personal Ambition </title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil W. Blackmon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville &#8211; mighty Casey has struck out.” &#8211;Ernest Lawrence Thayer, from Casey At the Bat The United States lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rehashing World Cup Memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first World Cup I can remember watching in earnest was Spain in 1982. I was nine years old and was given my first World Cup wall chart from my dad. This was an incredible device in itself and I got many hours of fun before the tournament recreating my own tournaments with dice and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>England Bemusings By A Brit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like nasal hair, seemingly incomprehensible candy bar prices and bafflement at acronyms; another part of growing older is seemingly antipathy towards sporting stars – particularly footballers. When I were a lad (queue Dvorak’s New World Symphony – used in a British bread commercial and as musical shorthand for anything, grim, northern or nostalgic since) Footballers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History Of The World Cup (2002)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the 17th in a weekly series of World Cup history lessons brought to you by our very own “Professor” Guy Bailey. He is not actually a professor; the only professor on staff is Jamie Clary. Well, sort of. The 2002 World Cup The 2002 World Cup was the first to be hosted jointly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A History Of World Cup Songs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 18:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waiting for the World Cup to approach is similar to the countdown to Christmas. Certain TV programs appear in the schedules, certain songs start appearing on the radio, certain housing estates that look like fresh meat would be at a premium spend seemingly thousands of pounds on gaudy, outlandish decorations, the cost of running them [...]]]></description>
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