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Hannah Karp looks back at recent gather-round-the-TV sports moments. As far as circus theatrics go, she says, Brett Favre puts LeBron James to shame with his teary 2008 retirement announcement. || Richard Deitsch: Watching the LeBron reality show on ESPN, I gained a new respect for TV’s “Amish in the City” and “Temptation Island.”
> “ESPN might as well be called BSPN, America’s Bullshit Leader”
> ESPN ombud’s July 8 column has nothing about LeBron
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