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...Forget Barry Bonds and his controversy-dogged quest to set baseball's all-time home run record. For sports fans who thrill at accusations of doping by elite athletes and the scandals such suspicion provokes, there's only one place to be right now: the Tour de France...
...Forget the "benchmarks" that Baghdad's politicians are showing little inclination to meet; the best hope in recent memory for national reconciliation in Iraq came Wednesday in the form of a shootout - not your conventional sectarian or insurgent affair, but a series of penalty kicks that settled an Asian cup soccer semifinal in Iraq's favor. Iraq's upset victory over highly rated South Korea has earned it a showdown on Sunday against - boy, do the gods of soccer ever have a wicked sense of humor - Saudi Arabia. The news drew tens of thousands of Iraqis of all stripes...
Stern has reason to be positive. His league is not crippled. Rather it has suffered the equivalent of a pulled groin, an injury that lingers but is usually overcome. Americans generally, but sports fans especially, are a forgive-and-forget bunch, for whom hope always springs eternal for next season, regardless of their team's performance the previous year. Remember how the public disparaged Kobe Bryant when he stood trial for rape in 2003? Guess who had the NBA's best-selling jersey last season...
...People can read for education, people can read for transcendence, people can read to forget their troubles, people can read for fun, and I think those are all valid reasons,” Darling said. “I think the important thing is that people read...
...those witnesses chose to forget, Morrison's fans vividly remember his death, regardless of the circumstances. At Pre-Lachaise cemetery, Sergeeva, who was born 15 years after Morrison passed away, shakes her head and says, "His death was such a shock...