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Fredonia Hockey Pink to Fight Cancer (Northwest Indiana Times)
By JOHN WAWROW | Thursday, February 07, 2008 | No comments posted. BUFFALO, N.Y. - Pink is in for the Fredonia State men's _ that's right, men's _ hockey team.

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Wild honor Modano for U.S. hockey contributions (Sports Illustrated)
Many Minnesota hockey fans still feel jilted by the Dallas Stars, but on Thursday they cheered for a Star they still consider one of their own.

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Baseball star Clemens goes one-on-one with US congressmen (AFP via Yahoo! News)
American baseball star Roger Clemens scheduled several face-to-face meetings with US congressmen in preparation for next week's House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing.

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Hillary Cast As 'Kissing Bandit' On Baseball Card (WCBS-TV New York)
Fred Thompson flopped in his bid to become president, but he's wearing the crown in a new set of baseball cards: He's Babe Ruth, the original home run king. And Mitt Romney isn't waving goodbye to the presidential race, he's waving the ball fair as Carlton Fisk in the 1975 World Series in Upper Deck's Presidential Predictors set. Don't go digging through the store shelves for a Hillary Clinton …

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UW football: Partridge happy to join Badgers family (Wisconsin State Journal)
When University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema tried to hire Charlie Partridge two years ago, the timing was not right. Partridge was in his third year as the defensive line coach at Pittsburgh and Bielema wanted him for the same job with the Badgers. When Partridge worked for coach Dan McCarney at Iowa State from 1998-2001, Bielema was the linebackers coach at Iowa and both of them …

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In Pictures: Football in Falluja (BBC News)
The inaugural match of a new children's football league is played in Falluja, western Iraq.

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