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           <title><![CDATA[Super Bowl Top 10]]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[Sky Sports' US sports blogger Alex Ferguson picks his top 10 talking points from a thrilling Super Bowl XLIX.]]></description>
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           <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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           <title><![CDATA[Play-off questions]]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[They are still complaining in Detroit. Last week&#8217;s round of NFL play-off games was highlighted by a controversial botched pass interference call by referees in the Detroit-Dallas game on Sunday, and suddenly, all the eyes are on Roger Goodell yet again. And this isn&#8217;t his fault.]]></description>
           <link>https://www.skysports.com/nfl/news/13283/9636287/nfl-alex-ferguson-asks-six-questions-ahead-of-this-weekends-playoff-matches</link>
           <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2015 09:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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           <title><![CDATA[Cowboys 'on course']]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[<strong>Simon Veness says the NFL landscape is seriously disturbed after the Cowboys&#8217; win in Seattle...</strong>]]></description>
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           <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:22:00 BST</pubDate>
           <category>Feature Story</category>
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           <title><![CDATA[Golden generation]]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was obviously extremely forward thinking when he coined the phrase: &#8220;You&#8217;ve never had it so good.&#8221;]]></description>
           <link>https://www.skysports.com/nfl/news/13283/9511165/nfl-2014-tom-brady-drew-brees-and-peyton-manning-part-of-golden-qb-generation</link>
           <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:26:00 BST</pubDate>
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           <title><![CDATA[The stats don't lie]]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing how much Fantasy Football can mirror the Real Thing in NFL terms these days (and vice versa).

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           <link>https://www.skysports.com/nfl/news/13283/9498939/nfl-2014-week-5-tom-brady-is-struggling-in-fantasy-football-and-on-the-field</link>
           <pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2014 09:05:00 BST</pubDate>
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           <title><![CDATA[NFL Power Rankings]]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s our unique Sky Sports Power Rankings, in four soccer-style divisions, and with &#8216;promotion&#8217; and &#8216;relegation,&#8217; as ranked by our US columnist Simon Veness.]]></description>
           <link>https://www.skysports.com/nfl/news/13283/9496133/nfl-power-rankings-simon-veness-rates-the-teams-after-week-four</link>
           <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:09:00 BST</pubDate>
           <category>News Story</category>
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           <title><![CDATA[Epic encounter]]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[The word is Epic: ep-ic (noun). 1. Long narrative poem; 2. Large-scale production; 3. Long series of events. And there is no more apt expression to sum up the way the US is looking forward to this week&#8217;s events from Gleneagles.]]></description>
           <link>https://www.skysports.com/golf/news/13283/9484540/ryder-cup-america-prepare-for-a-marathon-of-golf-coverage</link>
           <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 08:46:00 BST</pubDate>
           <category>News Story</category>
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           <title><![CDATA[Question time]]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[Robert Louis Stevenson had the right phrase for it &#8211; dissociative identity disorder &#8211; and, while he was writing in 1886, it could equally be applied to the NFL in its formative weeks this season.]]></description>
           <link>https://www.skysports.com/nfl/news/13283/9475958/nfl-more-questions-than-answers-after-opening-two-weeks-of-season</link>
           <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:49:00 BST</pubDate>
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           <title><![CDATA[What a week!]]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[In View From America this week, Simon Veness attempts to make sense of an incredibly jumbled first week of the new NFL season.]]></description>
           <link>https://www.skysports.com/nfl/news/13283/9464506/nfl-picking-super-bowl-teams-is-not-straight-forward-says-simon-veness</link>
           <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 09:01:00 BST</pubDate>
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           <title><![CDATA[The Power Rankings...]]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the first full week of the unique Sky Sports Power Rankings, in four soccer-style divisions, and with &#8216;promotion&#8217; and &#8216;relegation,&#8217; as ranked by our US columnist Simon Veness.]]></description>
           <link>https://www.skysports.com/nfl/news/13283/9463157/sky-sports-nfl-power-rankings</link>
           <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2014 07:15:00 BST</pubDate>
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           <title><![CDATA[Favourites can fall]]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[Mark Twain once said, &#8220;There are lies, damned lies and statistics.&#8221; But he should have added, &#8220;&#8230;and then there are the NFL pre-season standings.&#8221;]]></description>
           <link>https://www.skysports.com/nfl/news/13283/9455566/nfl-picking-super-bowl-teams-is-not-straight-forward-says-simon-veness</link>
           <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 09:01:00 BST</pubDate>
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           <title><![CDATA[NFL Power Rankings]]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re back! Sky Sports&#8217; NFL Power Rankings, rating every team in a 1-32 order, but with a unique twist as we group them into four soccer-style &#8216;divisions&#8217; from Champions League (the best) to Conference level (the less-than-best), as ranked by our US columnist Simon Veness.]]></description>
           <link>https://www.skysports.com/nfl/news/13283/9452946/nfl-power-rankings-preview-simon-veness-ranks-the-gridiron-teams</link>
           <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2014 08:41:00 BST</pubDate>
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           <title><![CDATA[The stuff of fantasy]]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[Simon Veness visits a Fantasy Football Convention to analyse the grip the game exercises over the NFL.]]></description>
           <link>http://www1.skysports.com/american-football/news/13283/9445744/nfl-fantasy-football-continues-to-take-the-nfl-by-storm-as-consumption-rises</link>
           <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:24:00 BST</pubDate>
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           <title><![CDATA[The stuff of fantasy]]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[The line between reality and fantasy is often blurred. You only have to watch Big Brother to realise it is far more pie-in-the-sky (or pie in your face) than anything to do with 'reality TV'.]]></description>
           <link>https://www.skysports.com/nfl/news/13283/9445744/simon-veness-fantasy-football-takes-the-nfl-by-storm</link>
           <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:23:00 BST</pubDate>
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           <title><![CDATA[Flying the flag]]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[Flag-waving is a traditional American past-time. It is as natural as apple pie and as unselfconscious as a Scandinavian on a nudist beach. Almost everyone does it, and no-one bats an eyelid, not even the Scandinavian.]]></description>
           <link>https://www.skysports.com/nfl/news/13283/9433896/view-from-america-nfl-pre-season-blighted-by-more-yellow-flags</link>
           <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:20:00 BST</pubDate>
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           <title><![CDATA[Thoroughbred field]]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[Even without Tiger on top form, the PGA at Valhalla proved golf's elite can thrill, says Simon Veness.]]></description>
           <link>http://www1.skysports.com/uspga/story/22509/9418094</link>
           <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:43:00 BST</pubDate>
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           <title><![CDATA[A Kentucky cracker]]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[It is absolutely fitting that this year&#8217;s final Major is in Louisville, Kentucky.]]></description>
           <link>https://www.skysports.com/golf/news/13283/9407078/uspga-championship-rory-and-ryder-cup-ramifications-make-valhalla-showdown-intriguing</link>
           <pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2014 09:49:00 BST</pubDate>
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           <title><![CDATA[The behemoth is back]]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[Getting a huge entity back in motion again after a period of prolonged slumber is never an easy task. Just try getting your teenage sons out of bed at the weekend.]]></description>
           <link>https://www.skysports.com/nfl/news/13283/9402682/view-from-america-focus-returns-to-nfl-after-quiet-summer-for-gridiron</link>
           <pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 08:23:00 BST</pubDate>
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           <title><![CDATA[It's Open season]]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[To borrow a phrase, you couldn&#8217;t make it up. You really couldn&#8217;t. This time last week, pretty much all we were hearing over here was how well prepared Tiger Woods was for The Open and how he was &#8220;pretty darn close&#8221; to his best once again.]]></description>
           <link>https://www.skysports.com/golf/news/13283/9390284/tiger-woods-isnt-pretty-darn-close-to-competing-at-the-top-level-again</link>
           <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:15:00 BST</pubDate>
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           <title><![CDATA[Woods chances a myth]]></title>
           <description><![CDATA[OK, enough is enough. ]]></description>
           <link>https://www.skysports.com/golf/news/13283/9383437/the-open-2014-american-media-taking-a-delusional-view-of-tiger-woods-says-simon-veness</link>
           <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 07:35:00 BST</pubDate>
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