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<title><![CDATA[Bill Plaschke - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/23077.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Bill Plaschke]]></description><category domain="23077">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Immortal Ohtani Blasts Dodgers to the World Series]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/plaschke-ohhhhhtani-immortal-shohei-ohtani-blasts-dodgers-to-the-world-series/ar-AA1OHi8P</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Plaschke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One minute he was burning through the top of the first inning with three flaming strikeouts.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Can Kobe Bryant Be Gone?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-26/bill-plaschke-column-on-kobe-bryant</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Plaschke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kobe Bryant was our childhood hero, our adult icon. It seems impossible to believe he has died at age 41.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Timeless Classic About a Tireless Mother]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-mothers-day-plaschke-20180512-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Plaschke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mothers are lifetime cheerleaders, true believers, the ultimate homers. Mothers are also reality checks, truth-tellers, trash-talkers who always have the last word. Mary Margaret Plaschke finally reached an age where she has at last agreed to allow me to honor all mothers by celebrating...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Brady Won't Be Able to Destroy This--He's a Cheater]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/sports/nfl/la-sp-brady-suspension-plaschke-20150729-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Plaschke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It turns out, Tom Brady's cellphone wasn't the only thing that was destroyed.So, too, was any remaining shard of belief in his competitive integrity, every last piece blown to smithereens with 10,000 text messages and one giant lie.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Cheating Patriots Get Away Unscathed?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/sports/nfl/la-sp-nfl-deflategate-plaschke-20150123-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Plaschke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bill Belichick played the rumpled dunce, wrinkled sweatshirt, rolled-up sleeves, the world's most detailed football coach shrugging and sighing and professing to have no idea about footballs."I had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls," he said.Tom Brady played...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roger Goodell Must Go]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/sports/nfl/la-sp-ray-rice-nfl-plaschke-20140909-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Plaschke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is sickening in its violence. A powerful athlete named Ray Rice throws a left-handed jab that knocks then-fiancee Janay Palmer into an elevator railing and sends her crumpling to the ground.It is shocking in its callousness. Rice stares idly down at the unconscious woman as if she...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Sterling Gets Company From Mark Cuban]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-bill-plaschke-mark-cuban-20140522-column.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Plaschke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It turns out, regarding race-related views among NBA owners, Donald Sterling may have company.Less than a month after Sterling rocked the sports world with racist remarks, Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has openly acknowledged his own prejudices.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time for Clippers Owner Donald Sterling to Go]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bill Plaschke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A racist rant attributed to Donald Sterling is far from the only such incident in Clippers owner's sad 30-year history in L.A. It's time for NBA to suspend him.]]></description>
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