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The national pastime

From American, soccer’s import battle: Will England establish quotas on the number of foreign players allowed on each Premier League team? From New English Review, baseball and cricket are regarded as the "national pastime" in America and Britain respectively although both have long fallen behind American football and basketball in the United States and soccer in the U.K. A look at why the Heisman is no key to NFL glory: Why do so few winners make it in the pros? Mitchellball: How the steroids report changes the Moneyball story. Even in the aftermath of the George Mitchell report, it’s useful to recall that in baseball not all cheaters are created equal.