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Kevin Roderick • May 13 2009 11:41 PM

Eerily prescient headline from last July at Not the L.A. Times, Roy Rivenburg's spoof of his former employer's foibles:

State sells San Diego to erase deficit

Now today's headline at the real Los Angeles Times:

Governor wants to sell L.A. Coliseum, San Quentin and Del Mar

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Dirty little secret: Fans care a lot more than players

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