It always amazes me how many sports franchises started in NYC or NYS and yet people say today it would be unthinkable.

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To be a fan of an MLS team or the league itself is be simultaneously appreciative of how much it has grown since it was started in 1996 while also being frustrated by what seems to be an illogical, slavish insistence to define an American version of soccer.

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So they started measuring how long it was before people in either group suffered one of these fates or was hospitalized for heart-related reasons.

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How it started: Oprah has been holding a contest for some starry-eyed hopeful to win his or her OWN show on her new network, the Oprah Winfrey Network, which launches in January.

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