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That Other Rumble in the Jungle: Documenting an epic concert in Zaire, Soul Power puts on quite a show

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Published Aug. 12, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

"When you bad ," boasts the young and beautiful, piss-and-vinegar-filled Muhammad Ali early in the documentary Soul Power , "you can do what you wanna do." The film, which takes too long to get to the meat of its matter, but captivates once it does, is an addendum to Leon Gast's Oscar ...

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Leverage and La Russa

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Published Aug. 7, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
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More photos » ... by Nam Y Huh - AP ... Being a Young Pitcher is hard work ... Browse more photos » ... While I was thinking about looking at this I wasn't sure whether the (relative) fungibility of relief pitching made it more likely to reveal a manager's innermost thoughts and desires—i.e. he can use anybody, and there are lots of candidates for the role, so he can lean toward his older pitchers if he wants—or less, that they were so difficult to predict that when one reliever does

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The Tale of the Louisville Lip

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Published March 18, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

Muhammad Ali has become so much an integral part of our culture and pop culture that kids who weren't alive when he abandoned retirement to light the torch at the '96 Olympics know of him. Ali's brashness, his rhyming taunts of opponents that became songs of praise to himself, his husky voice &mdash ...

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