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Anyone with eyes can see that Monday night’s World Cup game was rigged. Team USA is winning, 0–0, and then...

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At roughly 7:30 p.m. on Friday, July 3, the words JUST&T MARRIED! appeared on the jumbotrons outside Madison Square Garden....

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