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Forget love: It's sportswriting that means never having to say you're sorry. Sportscasting, too. A television reporter can insist six times in a 2 1/2-minute interview that Pete Rose apologize for gambling, while expressing a Rose-like reluctance to cop his own nationally televised mea culpa.

--from "Who's Sorry Now?" by Steve Rushin, Sports Illustrated, November 8, 1999

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