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National columnist @USATODAYSports , focusing on college football/basketball and other big stories. Send tips, ideas and requests to dwolken @usatoday .com

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Dan Wolken
4 months
Pleased to unleash the first of a 10-part series from ⁦⁦ @usatodaysports ⁩ on cheating in sports. First up: Why is cheating so pervasive, why cheating scandals get so much attention and why it’s so corrosive to our love of sports via @USATODAY
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Colin Kaepernick made a 90 second statement before leaving
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Andrew Luck deciding he’s made enough money to do whatever he wants to do for the rest of his life without having to get his head bashed in or practice football is one of the most rational things any person could ever decide
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2 years
John McEnroe on ESPN is ripping Australia for the way it handled the the Djokovic situation. Says he texted Novak, "It's BS."
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Jason Whitlock is a bad person. Just absolute garbage.
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2 years
This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen
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The Atlanta Hawks have gone to the Eastern Conference finals, torn it down, completely rebuilt and gotten back to the Eastern Conference finals all in the span of the 76ers’ “Process” before they have
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LaVar Ball trolled the President of the United States into mentioning him by name. I mean, just think about that.
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3 months
This is so embarrassing for ESPN. How the hell is this on their channel?
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Aaron Rodgers continued with a tirade against mainstream media, including ESPN SVP of Production Mike Foss
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COLUMN: By criticizing Daryl Morey on Monday, LeBron James endorsed a world where calling out his own government for wrongdoing is encouraged but China is above reproach. It's the most shameful day of his career. via @usatoday
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2 years
Is it just me or is this app getting dumber all the time
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6 years
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAS DEFEATED CANADA IN HOCKEY AND CURLING ON THE SAME DAY
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Zion on whether it’s fair that CBS can follow him around with the Zion-cam while not being compensated: “Like my mom taught me, worry about the things you can control.”
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It offends every fiber of my core that a team could completely no-show in its final game, sit on its ass during championship weekend and be rewarded with a playoff spot.
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4 years
Irresponsible for media outlets to speculate about who else was on the plane. Get the info or don’t say anything. The stakes are too high here in this tragedy.
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2 years
Saban asked if this team tested his patience: “I don’t have any patience so anything that happens is a test of my patience. Including sitting in this chair right now.” Alabama by a million
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6 years
It’s even worse on rewatch. The lowest moment in Urban’s career
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6 years
Just spoke with Jairus Lyles’ whole family who is here from Maryland. Get this: Both his parents are UVA grads.
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NBA TV has just shown Ja Morant in the stands eating chili cheese fries and Jaren Jackson downing some chicken fingers and fries. DO THE GRIZZLIES EVEN HAVE A NUTRITIONIST?
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4 years
In Turkey, they can do 2,000 tests an hour at the airport and give people the results two hours later for $16. The fact we can’t do something like that here is an outrage
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Istanbul Airport's Impressive Coronavirus Testing
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Welcome to the start of SEC bowl season in a few hours. Just a reminder, you have two narrative options this year as always. 1) The bowl result proves how dominant the SEC is 2) The SEC team didn’t want to be there
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6 years
Official. First African-American female AD in the Power 5
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Virginia Cavaliers
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Excited to announce Carla Williams as our new director of athletics. Welcome to UVA! Press Release:
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7 years
Rick Pitino is the most successful person in history who never knows anything important
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4 months
Just want to remind everyone that Alabama has beaten No. 1, No. 11, No. 13 and No. 21. There’s no way they are getting left out.
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6 years
Yesterday a CFB coaches agent called me. All he said was "LSU hired Ed Orgeron." We laughed for a few minutes.
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4 years
If you actually believe that the Big Ten has disrupted its $600 million business because of a presidential election, you have been gaslit.
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1 year
I have to say, I don't understand the Auburn fan base backlash on Hugh Freeze. Last I checked, your basketball coach is Bruce Pearl.
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5 years
I’m kind of surprised we aren’t talking more about the fact that Ohio State has a better quarterback than Georgia, given that Ohio State’s quarterback was at Georgia last year.
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1 year
My column on Nate Oats and the dumpster fire at Alabama is on the way. Truly one of the more shocking and disappointing days I’ve had covering college sports in awhile. Oats and AD Greg Byrne should be ashamed.
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Coco Gauff says “I definitely believe in climate change” and wasn’t upset at the protesters. “Would I prefer it not happen in my match? 100% yeah, but it is what it is…I always speak about preaching what you feel and what you believe in and it was done in a peaceful way.”
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5 years
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6 years
France wants Bama
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6 months
So the Miami thing actually gets stupider, if you can believe it. Cristobal just doesn’t take a knee at the end of games. He hasn’t all year. I don’t understand it. I’m not sure anyone would understand it. But it’s his thing.
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8 months
Are people really surprised about this Tuohy/Oher story? Maybe my Memphis background and familiarity with the Tuohys puts me in a different head space but I’ve been expecting this for 15 years.
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They’re coached like they’re babied. They play like they’re babied. They act like they’re babied. They deal with the media like they’re babied. That’s all on the guy in charge.
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@DanWolken Caleb sat on bench unable to go on field to shake hands with Utes. Entitled bush league
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6 years
After McMurphy dropped the text messages, Brian Voltolini and Urban "discussed at that time whether the media could get access to Coach Meyer’s phone, and specifically how to adjust the settings on Meyer’s phone so that text messages older than one year would be deleted."
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6 years
This might be the best message board post ever
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2 years
It only took LSU three years to fire Will Wade after hearing him on a wiretap trying to buy a player. Really on top of it down there.
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4 years
Andy Reid on his nine grandchildren: “They keep you young. And at the same time they make you feel old. It’s kind of like sweet and sour pork.”
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Dan Wolken
4 years
My timeline is currently filled with analysis of a Dave Portnoy interview with Donald Trump. I've never had a greater urge to just delete this app.
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Dan Wolken
5 years
If your system isn’t fit for a talent like Justin Fields, your system sucks.
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Todd Spitzer
5 years
This is inaccurate. Two completely different styles, two different players. Jake Fromm = UGA Justin Fields = OSU They both were made for the system they’re each playing in. If this were true JF would still be in Athens.
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Dan Wolken
5 years
Another satisfied Pac 12 officiating customer
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4 years
Dabo Swinney swept a racially charged incident during a practice between a white coach and a black player under the rug. If you are a former CFB player who has a similar story to tell at your program, my DMs are open.
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Jairus Lyles: “It’s funny, we were talking about, if we win, we’re going to get a 30 For 30 in a couple years."
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6 years
If USC scheduled Mercer instead of going on the road to Notre Dame, we aren’t even arguing today.
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Tennessee Tech is your college baseball Cinderella this year. Athletic budget of about $14.5 million just knocked Ole Miss, athletic budget of $110 million, out of the NCAA Tournament. Texas next.
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5 years
Jalen Rose just said on ESPN he’s “99% sure” Kawhi Leonard will return to Toronto
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Boise State traveled cross country, had a change of venue to make it a true road game, had to play in the kind of humidity it can’t practice in, got down three scores and was the much fresher, more energetic and composed team in the second half. SMH, Florida State.
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Dan Wolken
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The fact that the TV networks would pay various conferences to add 10 of the 12 schools in the Pac-12 but the Pac-12 couldn’t get a TV deal that kept them in the same league is one of the biggest failures by a sports executive we have ever seen
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Dan Wolken
5 years
Coach K said Nike sent “their top people” to Durham after the shoe exploded. Those people then went to China to personally oversee the manufacturing of his new shoe. OK then!
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Dan Wolken
1 year
I don't think it's hyperbole to say that if Texas A&M was not tied to Jimbo Fisher by the most ridiculous contract in the history of college football, this would be his final season.
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5 years
I am at a McDonald’s that ran out of burgers.
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I realize no McCord and Marv but the fact that Ohio State was the second-best team the Big Ten had to offer - by a significant distance - isn’t a good look for the Big Ten
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7 years
Can someone explain to me how Alabama conducted a 24 hour investigation of its basketball program, found no wrongdoing but fired someone?
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1 year
COLUMN: The only person in the wrong place at the wrong time is Nate Oats, a coach who proved himself unfit Tuesday to handle a real-life tragedy that has now redefined Alabama’s season with the involvement of its best player now revealed via @USATODAY
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5 years
This is such a bad-faith move by Oklahoma especially when the Big 12 literally changed its rules to accommodate Baker Mayfield getting another year of eligibility.
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Jake Trotter
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As it pursues Alabama grad transfer quarterback Jalen Hurts, OU is blocking Austin Kendall from becoming immediately eligible at West Virginia as a grad transfer, multiple sources told ESPN.
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5 years
I have a high opinion of Dabo and his program but hate this comment from a few years back and it’s worth renewing again. When the coach makes $9 million a year it’s not amateur athletics. It’s already professional.
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6 years
Sister Jean on whether God is a basketball fan: “He probably is. And he probably is more of the NCAA than the NBA.”
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6 months
I think I’m asking this seriously but is Washington doing a 2019 LSU and we haven’t quite figured it out yet?
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1 year
The fact that Alabama didn’t come out the day after the shooting and say they were suspending the two players who were there while gathering more information will go down as one of the biggest blunders in college sports history
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Dan Wolken
6 years
UCF kicking the crap out of a team that kicked the crap out of Georgia and Bama is... something
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Dan Wolken
6 years
The committee judged 2017 Alabama on 2009-2016 Alabama.
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Dan Wolken
6 years
Intentional or not, the lasting message of that press conference is Urban Meyer yakking on an easy question by equating his own burden with Courtney Smith’s. Unacceptable. Disgraceful.
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I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. I can’t think of a team that has had a better regular season that has been as disrespected as Washington. This is just insane behavior.
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1 year
Stetson Bennett’s 20 minute interview with print reporters this morning was the best media session I’ve ever experienced with a college football player in two decades of doing this
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5 years
Paul Pierce’s “series is over” declaration after Game 1 should be the first inductee into the @OldTakesExposed Hall of Fame
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Dan Wolken
2 years
Federer’s dominance of tennis from 2004-08 was a total joke.
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Dan Wolken
2 years
This is incredibly silly and if it happens I will be on the first plane to Madrid
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Front Office Sports
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Real Madrid wants to host a one-off match between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal at its 81,000-seat stadium, per @espn . Current renovations at Santiago Bernabeu will create a retractable pitch that can host tennis matches 🎾
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5 years
When Rachel tells Stephen A the Knicks are interested in Bobby Portis and Reggie Bullock
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6 years
One thing that is obvious last 24 hours. The names that have been associated with Mississippi State show me John Cohen knows what the hell he’s doing.
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Dan Wolken
4 years
If we got rid of championship weekend and went straight to an AQ/wildcard style Playoff we would get something like: (8) Memphis at (1) Ohio State (7) Baylor at (2) LSU (6) Georgia at (3) Clemson (5) Oklahoma at (4) Utah Where do I sign up?
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Here’s why I love Joe Moorhead getting hired at State: John Cohen didn’t do the typical BS of “gotta hire an SEC guy.” He picked the best football coach and brought a creative offense into the league.
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Dan Wolken
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Malcolm Gladwell, continuing his recent string of deeply problematic and weird takes, suggested on Simmons' podcast today that NBA players could be tested daily and live in a bubble and keep the season going
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Dan Wolken
4 years
If the conclusion of the Pac 12 and Big Ten medical experts is to shut down and the conclusion of the SEC and Big 12 medical experts is to keep going people better be willing to talk about it in detail and on the record
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Dan Wolken
7 years
This is what people are killing McEnroe for. Cmon folks.
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Dan Wolken
3 years
I’ve never seen a prominent sports personality torpedo their image the way Dabo has over the past year without doing anything but opening their mouth
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Dan Wolken
5 years
One way to stop Alabama conspiracy theories would be for officials to not make bad calls in Alabama’s favor
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Dan Wolken
5 years
COLUMN: Georgia went 0-2 against the two best teams on its schedule. The Bulldogs looked great against Alabama, but this isn’t a beauty pageant. Georgia shouldn’t be in the playoff via @usatoday
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5 years
This is going to be interesting
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Kansas basketball went to the doctor and was told it was going to have a heart attack if it didn’t change its habits and Bill Self responded by eating 50 Big Macs and smoking a carton of Marlboros
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The athletic director at Duke, whose basketball coach leveraged his job as Olympic basketball coach into one of the biggest recruiting advantages in college sports history, is concerned about NIL's impact on a level playing field in recruiting. Consider that for a moment.
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Dan Wolken
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Gus Malzahn would have made 100 times more sense at Tennessee than Josh Heupel, instead ends up replacing Heupel and UCF upgrades
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Marcus Peters: “I don’t even like gumbo. I was just bullshitting y’all.”
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ESPN says that Coastal Carolina-BYU was the most watched game on ESPNU since 2015 with 1.212 million viewers on TV and 1.425 million total including digital
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Dan Wolken
6 years
And when Urban turned his phone over to the investigative team, it had no text messages that were older than one year. Holy crap.
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Dan Wolken
2 years
Tennessee-Arizona has been the worst officiated college basketball game of the decade
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Dan Wolken
2 years
My Final Four picks: Arkansas vs UCLA, Arizona vs Kansas.
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Hugh Freeze, on running a faith-based program and his belief in Jesus: “He’s the only one I’ve ever met who can handle my junk.”
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6 years
Source: Florida State officials have started doing background work on Oregon coach Willie Taggart in preparation for the possibility Jimbo Fisher takes the Texas A&M job.
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5 years
This is an odd exchange
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Kirby getting passionate about his playoff case: “It boils down to one thing. Do you want the four best teams or not? Give the coach on the other sideline a vote for who he doesn’t want to play. I promise you it starts with us.”
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Steve Kerr is asked if he has any regrets about bringing Kevin Durant back into the series. “I’m going to leave that to Bob (Myers)."
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5 years
@jarenjacksonjr Hey blame NBA TV they were talking about it for several minutes.
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Dan Wolken
2 years
Nadal reaction to Federer news and confirms he will be at Laver Cup
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Dan Wolken
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I’m so sorry, Tennessee fans. You deserve so much better than this.
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1 year
Worst officiating moment of the tournament. If Memphis loses they’ll have a very legit gripe
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2 years
Jimbo isn’t in the rebuilding phase anymore. This is Year 5. Unacceptable.
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