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to go back 10 years for his last fond memory of pro football. That was the day Akili Smith's agent, Leigh Steinberg, posed the question, "Would you take $12 million to be the first pick in the NFL draft?" Short...

When he came to L.A. two years ago, was supposed to lift soccer's profile in the U.S. and help the Galaxy vie for a title. Instead he failed as a leader, foundered on the field and alienated his most important teammate

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Bringing a World Series trophy to a title-starved city can do that for a guy, but —national hero in Japan, hitting savant, friend to the Amish, Ted Williams and pretty much everyone in between—was a worldly man long...