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		<title>The Case For Equal Playing Time</title>
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One of the reasons Spec-Taters came into existence was my fascination with the changes that are going on in youth sports. Now, make no mistake about it, when I coach a team, I coach to win, but the extremes that I have seen coaches and parents go to in order to achieve their own personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 Year Old Commits to USC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess in a world where the ability to throw a ball has more monetary value than the ability to solve a quadratic equation it comes as no surprise that Lane Kiffin, the head coach of USC (for at least the next 14 months anyway based on his history)  has offered 13 year-old David Sills a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spec-taters.com/wordpress/?p=107</link>
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		<title>McGwire – Just This Month’s Version of “Oz”</title>
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And so it ends, not with a bang, like most of his towering home runs, but with a whimper. Mark McGwire admitted to using steroids for much of his career. The fact is he virtually admitted as much back in March of 2005 when he wouldn’t address whether or not he had taken steroids in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spec-taters.com/wordpress/?p=100</link>
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		<title>The Silence is Deafening as Pete Carroll leaves USC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I suppose that nothing should shock me anymore, but I can&#8217;t believe the pass that Pete Carroll is getting in the media as he leaves the head coaching job at the University of Southern California to take the position of Coach and Executive Vice President of the Seattle Seahawks.  As witnessed by this most recent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spec-taters.com/wordpress/?p=96</link>
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		<title>Coach Suspended for Bowl Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the heels of the firing of Kansas football coach Mark Mangino (written about earlier in a previous blog), Texas Tech has just suspended head coach Mike Leach from coaching in the Valero Alamo Bowl for allegedly going &#8220;Dursley&#8221; on redshirt sophomore receiver Adam James, son of ESPN analyst Craig James, confining him twice to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spec-taters.com/wordpress/?p=94</link>
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		<title>Saving Bonds</title>
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Ruth. Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle, Aaron. They will live forever as legends of baseball. America’s obsession with sport, history and the boys of summer will always keep them at the forefront of our collective consciousness. We remember how great they were and reminisce about how great it was “back then”. 
Another baseball legend retired this week, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spec-taters.com/wordpress/?p=79</link>
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		<title>Tiger Woods and the Consequences of Free Will</title>
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Tiger Woods is not the first professional athlete to cheat on his spouse, though he may be the most famous. Golf’s billion-dollar man has a Q factor that is in rarified air. Only a few human beings in the history of the world can relate to Tiger’s life – Muhammed Ali, Michael Jordan… I go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spec-taters.com/wordpress/?p=77</link>
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		<title>Just Say No To Participation Trophies</title>
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If you’ve ever had a child involved in youth sports, you undoubtedly have attended the obligatory end-of-season party. Win, lose or draw the team gets together one last time to celebrate the season, whether grilling by the pool or at the local pizza place. This has always been an enjoyable event for me as both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spec-taters.com/wordpress/?p=70</link>
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		<title>Charges Against Tennessee Safety Dropped</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A follow-up to an earlier blog, the charges against University of Tennessee freshman safety Janzen Jackson have been dropped.  The DA&#8217;s office said that neither he nor the woman that was driving the car were aware that the robbery was going to happen.
So Janzen Jackson is off the hook.  I hope that rather than taking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spec-taters.com/wordpress/?p=67</link>
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		<title>Much Ado About Something</title>
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I have to admit, at first I was a little confused about all the hubbub surround recent allegations that Kansas football coach Mark Mangino is responding to. Incidents of verbal abuse, grabbing kids and poking them in the chest would certainly be an issue at the level that I coach (young kids from 5-10 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spec-taters.com/wordpress/?p=62</link>
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