The YEAR in SPORTS

So many upsets, comedowns, blowouts, come backs. Nothing made sense. But what about the Colts, Federer, the Spurs, Tiger and the Red Sox? All of them figured. Themes? Maybe there were no themes in 2007. Just stories: good ones, bad ones and baffling ones

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