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How to Improve the Home Run Derby

By Eamonn BrennanJul 9th 2007 – 4:03PM

If you've been reading the FanHouse today, you're probably familiar with my perhaps-too-virulent rant about the Home Run Derby as compared to the All-Star Game. If you gathered anything of importance from that diatribe, it's that I happen to really enjoy the Home Run Derby. But, as Jayson Stark points out at ESPN.com...

Drop the Charade: The Home Run Derby Is Better Than the All-Star Game

By Eamonn BrennanJul 9th 2007 – 3:00PM

I hate pretense. It's something that almost ruins NCAA athletics for me. Everybody carries on like Division I athletes are amateurs, that everyone follows an archaic recruiting guidebook, that no one cheats or slips people a little money here and there. None of it's true, of course, and it's people that argue for the NCAA...

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