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My Pitch

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I wrote my first-ever column on Nov. 3, 2005, about how Zinedine Zidane is the greatest athlete since Michael Jordan’s second (mid-1998) retirement, if not one of the greatest ever. In that column, I expounded, “you just don’t know sports until you’ve seen the legend in his No. 10 France jersey, putting on an absolute soccer spectacle. Don’t make the same mistake I did. Don’t miss the chance to see him in June.”