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“If you’ve got a bunch of teams who play throughout the season, and many of them have one loss or two losses, there’s no clear decisive winner. We should be creating a playoff system…I don’t know any serious fan of college football who has disagreed with me on this.” -President Elect Barack Obama
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“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” -Robert F. Kennedy
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“Who could have predicted that in a World Series battle between a Red team (Phillies) and a Blue team (Rays), one presidential candidate would delay the deciding game to spread his message, while his opponent promised that, if elected, he’d never let politics stand in the way of a good ballgame?” -Hal Habib, PalmBeachPost.com
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“The misnomer is that we’re a minor league franchise [considering] all the kids [13] we have in the NBA.” -Jim Calhoun, as reported by the Hartford Courant
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“Interest is good in UConn football, but scarcely through the roof. Sellouts aren’t guaranteed. The great D I-A experiment is still being nurtured and with every important state media outlet represented, it was the perfect time to let Frazer introduce himself.” -Jeff Jacobs, Hartford Courant, on Randy Edsall’s decision not to allow access to QB Zach Frazer
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“I think the Court can absolutely positively take judicial notice that Duke is probably the worst football team in Division I football. Everybody knows that. That’s no secret.” -Attorney for Duke University, defending the university against a breach of contract claim brought by the University of Louisville
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“Troy Brown to me is the consummate Patriot because of what he did on the field, the way he conducted himself off the field and the fact that he always put team first.” -Patriots Chairman and CEO Robert Kraft on the retirement of Troy Brown
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“No one revolutionizes the starting quarterback position. The position revolutionizes the person playing it.” -Jason Whitlock, FOXSports.com
