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High-stakes theatre in house of Blatter

 

They came from the skies. Descending into Zurich's ice-bound airport like supplicant demi-gods at the court of Apollo, it was in the end a slightly peculiar rag-bag of celebrity bid-fluffers and A-list power-handshakers who took to the stage at the home of football's own floating superstate to put the final gloss on the process of World Cup bid presentation.

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The Texas Rangers might demand a birth certificate. Suuuure, he's 21. Suuuure this is his first postseason. Madison Bumgarner looks as if he has done this a thousand times before.

But no, this was Bumgarner's first World Series start, and even if the Rangers doubt his age, they cannot question his stuff, not after he pitched the Giants to the brink of a championship in Game 4 Sunday night.



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