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Got socked with the office head-cold. Grr. Amy & I are about to head down to Philadelphia for a friend’s wedding, so I’ll suck it up, take some Airborne, and leave you with this quote from Latrell Sprewell’s agent, Bob Gist: Anyone who thinks he should play [$1.1 million], that’s absurd. […] He might as … <\/p>\n
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