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Derek Tang 307 posts 0 comments

Put an avid sports fan(atic) together with social networking, and you have someone like me who is prone to live-tweeting pretty much any event he's watching!

Somewhere inside of me is a sports analyst waiting to break out, and TheAOSN.com is the perfect setting for me.

The English Premiership, the NFL, and all things Duke University are my particular areas of sports expertise, but I'm just as willing to have discussions about badminton, extreme sports, the Olympics.......and just about anything else that covers sports culture. Basically, if it's sports talk, I'm in!

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FIFA U-20 World Cup: Day 7 Recap

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FIFA U-20 World Cup: Day 7 Recap http://gty.im/475940852 After a week of play, the final round of group fixtures in the U-20 World Cup began on Friday evening in New Zealand, as Group B teams Argentina, Austria, Ghana, and Panama faced off to determine which teams would advance. Both Ghana and Austria were in the driver's seat with 4 points each…
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FIFA U-20 World Cup: Day 5 Recap

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FIFA U-20 World Cup: Day 5 Recap http://gty.im/475674730 Groups C and D saw some unexpected results in the opening round, as Mexico were reduced to 9 men in a late collapse against Mali, while Colombia were unexpectedly contained by unfancied Qatar. Meanwhile, Uruguay frustrated a gallant Serbian team that failed to make their creativity and pace…
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FIFA U-20 World Cup: Day 3 recap

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FIFA U-20 World Cup: Day 3 recap http://gty.im/475465602 A remarkable day of action in the U-20 World Cup on Monday in New Zealand, as a total of 28 goals were scored in just 4 games. Every one of the 8 teams that took the field, including new faces Fiji, scored at least one goal, and fans were treated to a festival of goals, entertaining play,…
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FIFA Corruption Probe Leads to Arrests (UPDATED)

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FIFA Corruption Probe Leads to Arrests http://gty.im/467034360 Late Tuesday evening in the US and before most had even woken up in Zurich, Switzerland on Wednesday morning, Swiss law enforcement officers began rounding up several FIFA officials after the US Department of Justice issued indictments against them as part of an ongoing probe into…
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