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The Bucks' moves didn't nike free trainers draw nearly the attention as those of the Miami Heat or Boston Celtics, but Jennings thinks Milwaukee's hefty investment will pay off. "We can win the Central Division, to tell you the truth," Jennings said. "I'm gonna thank LeBron for leaving the Central Division. But that was the case four years ago, too, and none of that mattered when Greece executed at will over timberland chukka boots the final three quarters in a 101-95 semifinal victory. That was the latest U.S. disappointment in an event it was won only three times.

Goodell has borrowed liberally from Stern's playbook, but his execution has been clumsier. His emphasis on personal conduct has occasioned a lot of selective moral grandstanding MBT Kisumu Sandals on subjects both big (Michael Vick's dogfighting) and small (players' trash-talking), betraying a misbegotten belief that football, which has introduced such phenomena as chronic traumatic encephalopathy and the Raiders, has anything to teach us about virtue.

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