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 | | the U.S. men's hockey team at the 2006 Winter Olympics... |
 | | Team sports, certainly, matter in the United States, but the current era of free agency and unbridled commercialism and ESPN highlights has created an environment of individuals achieving personal glory within a loose team framework. |
 | | Baseball, basketball, hockey and now even football have gone to great lengths to export their sport overseas, which is another way of saying their leagues want to sell a bunch of jerseys in other countries. |
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