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    <title>NPR Columns: Sports with Frank Deford Podcast</title>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[NPR Morning Edition's Frank Deford gives weekly commentary on a cross section of the world of sports. Sometimes acerbic, often funny, always insightful.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>No. 1s: The Latest Greatest Of All Time </title>
      <description><![CDATA[The NBA will soon crown another team as the best. And another MVP will be named. But commentator Frank Deford says such titles of greatness are fleeting.]]></description>
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      <title>Get Off My Lawn! And Other Grumblings About Sports Today</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Frank Deford's friend "the Sports Curmudgeon" reflects on some of the things that bother him about the sports world.]]></description>
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      <title>The Pitch For More No. 42s</title>
      <description><![CDATA[There's more buzz than usual this year around baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who made his major league debut on April 15, 1947. But commentator Frank Deford says there isn't enough buzz in college athletics to help shape the Robinsons of the future.]]></description>
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      <title>Tiger At The Masters: The Juncture Of Exhilaration And Peril</title>
      <description><![CDATA[When Tiger Woods tees off at Augusta National Golf Club this week, he will have overcome injuries and personal scandal. But commentator Frank Deford wonders whether a Masters win for Woods would be a comeback or his way of getting back at his detractors.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:03:18 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Baseball Isn't Dead; It Just Takes More Work To Appreciate</title>
      <description><![CDATA[For years, non-baseball experts have been ringing the death knell for this game. But sports commentator Frank Deford says popular team games are so deeply ingrained in our culture that they're here to stay.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:03:26 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>It's Been An Ugly Year For College Basketball</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Frank Deford isn't impressed with the style of play — or the style of uniforms — in this year's March Madness.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:03:17 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Frank Deford isn't impressed with the style of play — or the style of uniforms — in this year's March Madness.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>What's The Score On Spirited Sports Banter At Bars?</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Sports commentator Frank Deford wants to know: When did we stop arguing about sports in the time-honored bar-stool fashion?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:04:16 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Sports commentator Frank Deford wants to know: When did we stop arguing about sports in the time-honored bar-stool fashion?]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>School Bands Should Not Be Entertainment Adjunct For Sports</title>
      <description><![CDATA[For commentator Frank Deford, it seems unfair that students who pursue other extracurricular talents — like music — should be placed in a subsidiary position to their classmates who happen to play sports.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:03:21 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Catholic Universities See True Path To Salvation: Basketball </title>
      <description><![CDATA[A powerful leadership group — the Catholic Seven — is stepping forward and heading in a bold new direction: basketball. These schools want out of the Big (football) East Conference.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:03:16 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Dear College Presidents: Break The NCAA's Vise Grip On Athletes</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Student-athletes are really sucker-athletes under the organization's structure, says sports commentator Frank Deford. Will no college president speak the words that will break the organization's spell?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:03:12 -0500</pubDate>
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