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		<title>Unholy Waterfront</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McGarvey</dc:creator>
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With a shock of sandy blonde hair that perpetually seems to be on the verge of revolt and a conversation style that is best described as a benign form of rapid-fire free association, it&#8217;s easy to picture Professor Jim Fisher, 52, as the young taxicab driving college dropout living in Hoboken, N.J., that he once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corny and Profound</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ginny Kubitz Moyer</dc:creator>
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For Christmas one year, when I was in high school, my grandpa gave me the video of The Sound of Music. I was thrilled: my favorite movie, the one I&#8217;d loved since childhood, was mine to watch at will. 
My cousin Mark, in his early twenties at the time, regarded my new tape with good-natured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual Seekers Adventure (on a Budget)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editors</dc:creator>
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BUSTED HALO&#174; SPIRITUAL SEEKERS ADVENTURE 2010
Last year we had an enormous response to the Spiritual Seekers Adventure trips we were offering to the Camino in Spain as well as our arts &#38; culture trip to Paris.  Busted Halo&#174; is happy to announce that we are offering these same journeys again for March 2010 at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viewing America Through Michael Jackson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mirlande Jeanlouis</dc:creator>
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The sudden death of Michael Jackson this past summer took the world by surprise and led to spontaneous fan tributes around the globe and countless conversations about the King of Pop&#8217;s place in popular culture. Many of those conversations are bound to be revisited with the release this week of This Is It, a film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Captain Lou Albano, &#8220;Nice Italian Boy&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catherine Perry</dc:creator>
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&#8220;Captain&#8221; Lou Albano (1933-2009) &#8212; professional wrestling legend and star of Cyndi Lauper videos &#8212; was what my grandmother called &#8220;a nice Italian boy.&#8221; Never mind that by the time she met him, he was in his 50s; and, that to an entire industry of professional wrestlers, being called &#8220;nice&#8221; would have been the kiss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God Doesn&#8217;t Like Ugly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McGarvey</dc:creator>
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Throughout the side chapels and the interior of St. Paul the Apostle Church in the Hell&#8217;s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, the historically significant artwork on permanent display now shares space with a compelling and eclectic mix of contemporary pieces. God Doesn&#8217;t Like Ugly, as the exhibition is titled, is the third major group exhibition presented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Family that Plays Together</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McGarvey</dc:creator>
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In the white-hot glare of worldwide celebrity there are no shadows, there are only outsized figures of triumph or scorn. They are presented to us as fully formed creations, media amplified surfaces without depth who occupy our fantasies until something else inevitably takes their place. This strange and rare sort of fame &#8212; which basketball [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busted: Charlie Louvin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Fink</dc:creator>
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One of country music&#8217;s great survivors, Charlie Louvin has a career that reads like a Southern gothic novel. He grew up singing sacred harp music — a harmonically complex form of Southern congregational music — with his brother Ira, and the duo would help lay the foundation for the country-rock movement with their close harmonies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Transfers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Kouwe</dc:creator>
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Often it’s the things that don’t turn out the way we’d planned that teach us the most about ourselves and what’s important. A more philosophical way of putting it—experience  is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
Patti started out  at small women’s college. She made some great friends right off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of a Celebrity Gossip Columnist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristine Gasbarre</dc:creator>
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I knew I was in trouble the day I wrote a headline about Michael Jackson being a gay crossdresser. He wasn&#8217;t even in the ground yet, his dear family was mourning, and here I was exposing an intimate speculation about his life for the whole world and their grandma to read.
This was Michael Jackson. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busted: Deanna Witkowski</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McGarvey</dc:creator>
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		<title>Kill Adolf</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Simcha Weinstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you hadn&#8217;t taken that job, or gone to that school, or moved to that neighborhood?
In other words: what if you were living in an alternative reality?
Alternative history is a genre with a long pedigree, especially in the realm of science fiction. After all, who can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Drop of Blarney to Get Him into Heaven</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/a-drop-of-blarney-to-get-him-into-heaven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Lindenman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also check out the latest Busted Halo Cast about Frank McCourt.

Deanna, my ex-girlfriend, grew up in Boston.  Recalling her early home life, she would sing a litany of parental neglect, substance abuse and financial mismanagement.  Apparently, the one bright moment came when she saw one of her friends break most of her toes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jon and Kate + Commiserate</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/pure-sex-pure-love-93-jon-and-kate-commiserate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/pure-sex-pure-love-93-jon-and-kate-commiserate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I&#8217;ve been tuning in to Jon &#38; Kate Plus Eight at the gym. I watch on the sly like I&#8217;d rubberneck on the highway: The crash is too gory to view directly, but I can&#8217;t take my eyes off the drama. Some research suggests viewers watch reality TV because deep down they believe, someday, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busted: Anthony Michael Hall</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/busted-anthony-michael-hall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Dwyer, CSP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anthony Michael Hall got his big break as an actor when he was cast as Rusty in the family road trip movie Vacation, followed closely by three seminal films from the 80s: 16 Candles, The Breakfast Club and Weird Science. He was then the youngest cast member ever on Saturday Night Live. He also bullied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Comedy of Biblical Proportions</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/a-comedy-of-biblical-proportions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Simcha Weinstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Sunday school just got a lot more interesting. The new movie Year One is an Old Testament version of the classic Monty Python comedy The Life of Brian.
Now, for some people, that&#8217;s not exactly a ringing endorsement. Not everybody approved of the Pythons&#8217; outrageous spoof of Biblical epics, which featured something to offend everyone. Yet, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busted: The Stoning of Soraya M.</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/busted-the-stoning-of-soraya-m/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McGarvey</dc:creator>
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In the few days since we published our interview with Jim Caviezel, events surrounding the election in Iran have added special resonance to his new film, The Stoning of Soraya M. (opens June 26).  In the movie, based on an actual event that occurred in Iran in 1986, an Iranian woman is the lone voice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busted: Jim Caviezel</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/busted-jim-caviezel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McGarvey</dc:creator>
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Being at the center of one of the highest grossing movies of all time can be both a blessing and a curse for an actor. The world now recognizes their name and face, but a role can be so iconic that they&#8217;ll have trouble breaking free of it in audiences&#8217; minds (Mark Hamill as Luke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 1: Jesus&#8217; Loneliness &amp; Love &amp; The Da Vinci Code</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/entertainmentandlifestyle/anne-rice-part1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/entertainmentandlifestyle/anne-rice-part1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McGarvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In late 2005, novelist Anne Rice stopped by BustedHalo’s® offices in New York to promote her book Christ the Lord, Out of Egypt, the first installment in her planned four-part “autobiography” of Jesus. What was supposed to be a brief interview with the legendary author—who has sold more than 100 million books worldwide—turned into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angels and Demons &#8212; mindless and mild</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 20:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ruehlmann</dc:creator>
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In the gospel according to Ron Howard, absolutely everything is ominous when it&#8217;s undertaken at the Vatican. Whether it&#8217;s a member of the curia strolling down a dark hallway of the Holy See, or somebody steeping tea in the papal breakfast nook, the director who has brought Dan Brown&#8217;s novels to the cineplex loads down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The State of the Danielson</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-state-of-the-danielson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 19:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Fink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though he&#8217;d never want to take credit for it, the extent to which there is a Christian presence in indie rock — a scene generally suspicious of and cynical toward expressions of faith — is largely due to the presence of Daniel Smith. More than any other artist in the post-punk era, he has redefined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busted: Tovah Feldshuh</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/busted-tovah-feldshuh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 05:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Dwyer, CSP</dc:creator>
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[Use the audio player above to listen to this interview.]
Tony- and Emmy-nominated actress Tovah Feldshuh is well known for her recurring role as Danielle Melnik on TV&#8217;s Law &#38; Order, but when she visited the Busted Halo Radio Show on Sirius XM recently, it was to talk about her starring role in the new Broadway [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busted: Michael Green</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/busted-michael-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McGarvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interview and introduction by Bill McGarvey 
Since breaking into television writing back in 1998, Michael Green has worked on a number of network and cable television shows, including Sex and the City and Smallville. Most recently, he was a writer and co-executive producer on NBC&#8217;s Emmy-nominated Heroes. NBC&#8217;s new drama series, Kings (two-hour premiere on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Up On Giving Up?</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/giving-up-on-giving-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/giving-up-on-giving-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McGarvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Fast, Pray, Give calendar is getting some big time attention! National Public Radio&#8217;s website, npr.org, asked BustdHalo&#8217;s editor-in-chief Bill McGarvey to write a commentary on alternative Lenten fasting practices. They&#8217;ve asked us our readers to visit their site and add their comments. The more comments/discussion the piece generates the greater the chance it has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 2nd Annual Oscar Smackdown!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if last&#8217;s year&#8217;s drubbing on their Oscar podcast wasn&#8217;t enough, America magazine—the national Catholic weekly run by the Jesuits—asked to go head to head once again with BustedHalo.com&#8217;s editor-in-chief Bill McGarvey on this year&#8217;s Oscar race. America&#8217;s resident Oscar snot-noses, Fr. Jim Martin SJ and associate editor Tim Reidy, tried valiantly to keep up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busted: Mavis Staples</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Fink</dc:creator>
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Lost among the hoopla of the Inauguration of Barack Obama — among the celebrity sightings, the musical guests, and the soaring rhetoric — was the conspicuous absence of one civil rights icon. Where was Mavis Staples, the woman whose soulful baritone led the legendary Staple Singers? With her father, Roebuck &#8220;Pops&#8221; Staples and her siblings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twilight Zone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cara OBrien</dc:creator>
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&#8220;He grinned his crooked smile at me, stopping my breath and my heart. I couldn&#8217;t imagine how an angel could be any more glorious.&#8221;
Bella never had a chance. The protagonist of the breakout bestselling young adult novel Twilight falls in love under the gray, rain-soaked skies of Washington State unthinkingly and unerringly.
It&#8217;s just too bad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busted: Siobhan Fallon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McGarvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether it&#8217;s been in blockbusters like Men In Black and Forrest Gump, or indie films such as Dancer in the Dark and Dogville, Siobhan Fallon is a character actress whose face is memorable even if her name might not be.
In the romantic comedy, New in Town, starring Ren&#233;e Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr., Fallon, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Song Fit For A King</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[EDITOR'S NOTE &#8212; While MLK Day is celebrated next Monday,  January 15 is Dr. King's birthday. He would have been 80 today. This article was originally published in Busted Halo on January 15, 2007.]
The record spins. The needle hits the vinyl. A rhythmic tune bursts out from the speakers and penetrates my soul. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faithful Departed—Yankee &amp; Shea Stadiums</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Hayes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yankee Stadium (1923-2008)

The champagne was all over my shirt and Derek Jeter stood there laughing. I had just played his accomplice by interviewing Darryl Strawberry in the corner of the locker room so that Jeter could spray him in the face with champagne moments after the Yankees had clinched the American League&#8217;s Eastern Division in [...]]]></description>
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