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		<title>The Tale Of Tiger Retold For The Masters</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2010/03/17/tale-tiger-woods</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BILL LITTLEFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week brought the news that Tiger Woods will return to pro golf in April at the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga. Commentator Bill Littlefield is among those curious about how a man who’s become notorious for all the wrong reasons will fare when he returns to the golf course. ]]></description>
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		<title>Hoops &#8216;Madness&#8217; Features Half-Court Shots And Honesty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BILL LITTLEFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[College basketball's Division 1 "March Madness" tips off next week. Though WBUR's sports commentator, Bill Littlefield, will be watching all this play out on TV, he's still marveling at a Division 3 game that got less attention earlier this season. ]]></description>
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		<title>When It&#8217;s Woman Vs. Man, Sometimes There&#8217;s An Upset</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2010/03/05/men-women-sports</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BILL LITTLEFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Football is for boys and cheerleading is for girls. Right? We are accustomed to thinking of most of our sports in terms of separation by gender. But every once in a while, that assumption gets dramatically challenged.]]></description>
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		<title>Littlefield: Finally, Soccer Has Major-League Problems</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2010/03/04/soccer-opener</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BILL LITTLEFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New England Revolution is scheduled to open their season March 27 in Los Angeles. If all goes according to play, in their first home game, the Revs will host Toronto on April 10. But there is some suspense regarding whether the Revolution and 15 other teams that make up Major League Soccer will begin playing on time this spring.]]></description>
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		<title>Is Curling A Sport? (Who Cares?)</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2010/02/23/is-it-a-sport</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BILL LITTLEFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Winter Olympics present millions of people with the opportunity to pay rapt attention to figure skating and bobsledding, not to mention luge, skeleton, cross-country skiing and biathlon. All, of course, are sports -- or are they?]]></description>
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		<title>In Hosting Winter Games, Canada Feels The Heat</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2010/02/12/canada-winter-sports</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BILL LITTLEFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Athletically and financially, there is pressure on Canada, as the host of the 2010 Winter Olympics, to be successful.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Many Winter Olympians Already Have The Gold</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BILL LITTLEFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 Winter Olympics begin in Vancouver Friday night. Commentator Bill Littlefield is prepared to discuss some of the winners who have already brought home the gold. ]]></description>
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		<title>Advocacy Is In The Eye Of The Beholder</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2010/02/04/tebow-et-al</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BILL LITTLEFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Super Bowl Sunday nears, there has been a lot of discussion of a commercial scheduled to air on that advertising day of days. The ad features Heisman Trophy-winning, University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother, and is sponsored by Focus on the Family, an organization that opposes abortion. Objections to the commercial notwithstanding, WBUR's sports commentator is not convinced that it is likely to constitute anything new. ]]></description>
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		<title>All About Sport In Olympian&#8217;s Youth Ski League</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2010/01/29/koch-ski-league</link>
		<comments>http://www.wbur.org/2010/01/29/koch-ski-league#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BILL LITTLEFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Koch excelled at competition in his day. The Brattleboro, Vt., native won a silver medal in Nordic skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics. But these days, the youth ski league that bears his name is offering a balance of learning and fun for cross-country skiers between the ages of 3 and 14. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Richest Girls Basketball Coach In The World</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2010/01/22/good-coach</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BILL LITTLEFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few weeks, coaches making lots of money at one university have moved on to make more money at other universities or in the professional ranks. For some reason, the annual shuffling of high-profile coaches has commentator Bill Littlefield thinking of a low-profile coach who was also something of a magician.]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;Steroid Era&#8217; Doesn&#8217;t End With McGwire&#8217;s Apology</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2010/01/16/mcgwire-aftermath</link>
		<comments>http://www.wbur.org/2010/01/16/mcgwire-aftermath#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BILL LITTLEFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Mark McGwire, he of the 70 homeruns in 1998, acknowledged that he’d used steroids throughout much of his baseball career. Very shortly thereafter, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig announced that “the so-called steroid era” was “a thing of the past.” That's debatable.]]></description>
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		<title>Overtime: Reflecting On Sports In 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/12/30/sports-year</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BILL LITTLEFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the year draws to a close, in the real world, there's no overtime. But in the world of sports, there is some time to reflect. In poem form, WBUR's Bill Littlefield does just that.]]></description>
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		<title>Coach Gives Lump Of Coal To Christmas Hoops</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/12/29/xmas-commentary</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BILL LITTLEFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unexpected and encouraging bit of year-end, sports-related analysis came in response to the glut of televised pro basketball on Christmas Day. ]]></description>
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		<title>First Black All-American College Football Player Honored, Belatedly</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/12/19/football-fame-lewis</link>
		<comments>http://www.wbur.org/2009/12/19/football-fame-lewis#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BILL LITTLEFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Henry Lewis was among 18 men honored last week by the College Football Hall of Fame. To describe his induction as "belated" would be an understatement. Lewis played his football at Amherst and Harvard in the early 1890s and wound up accumulating a long list of achievements and distinctions.]]></description>
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		<title>Littlefield: 10 Tips Obama Shouldn&#8217;t Take From Tiger</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/12/10/golfing-buddies</link>
		<comments>http://www.wbur.org/2009/12/10/golfing-buddies#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BILL LITTLEFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As President Obama works to achieve consensus on such difficult issues as universal health care and the attempt to encourage the economy while presiding over two wars, he needs all the friends he can get. But Mr. Obama may feel he has been saddled with one he could do without.]]></description>
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		<title>Littlefield: Tiger Woods Has Everything &#8212; Except Troubles</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/12/03/woods-commentary</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BILL LITTLEFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Calling a man like Tiger Woods "troubled" is, well, troubling.]]></description>
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		<title>Soccer Championship Has Star Power On Its Side</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/11/19/mls-cup</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BILL LITTLEFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, Major League Soccer will determine their champion, when the Los Angeles Galaxy and Real Salt Lake face each other in Seattle. The league is delighted with the presence of at least one of the teams in the championship game.]]></description>
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		<title>The Everlasting Allure Of The World Series</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/10/27/world-series</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BILL LITTLEFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even without the Red Sox, the World Series still holds Boston fans in its historic thrall.]]></description>
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		<title>A Perfect Game, Made Imperfect</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/10/07/perfect-game</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BILL LITTLEFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baseball’s post-season is underway. In a few weeks, two of the eight teams still in play will meet in the World Series. A recent book about the only perfect game ever pitched during the fall classic has rattled commentator Bill Littlefield, even though that game occurred over half a century ago.]]></description>
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		<title>A Call For Action By The NFL</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/10/01/football-dimentia</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study by a National Football League commission released Wednesday shows former players have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia much more frequently than their counterparts in the population at large. As the NFL tries to dispute those findings, WBUR Commentator Bill Littlefield tries to get some perspective.]]></description>
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