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How much weight does luck carry in sports?

Luc Robitaille was "Lucky," Lou Gehrig was "the luckiest man on the face of the earth" and was anyone luckier than Michael Jordan? Seriously, that guy always ended up on good teams. No question luck is everywhere in sports, everywhere other than the Clippers' offices, the place where luck once visited and immediately ruptured its ACL. In just the past few days, the Dodgers won a game in Arizona after the Diamondbacks botched a routine defensive play. "Lucky for us," Manager Joe Torre said. The Yankees beat the A's in part because of a fortunate break that saw an errant throw from the outfield find Alex Rodriguez. "Just luck more than anything," the third baseman said. And then in Baltimore, the Tigers won when closer Todd Jones, a man roughly as nimble as a foosball table, made a spinning throw to retire a runner at first.... [read full story]                    

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