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			<title><![CDATA[The Seattle Sonics Could Not Be Saved]]></title>
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				Sonics Owner Clay Bennett is a jowly-faced bastard. I'm doing him a favor by calling him that because that’ s probably one of the kinder things he'll be called from now on by <a href="http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-33-14/A-Shot-to-the-Gut-of-Seattle-Fans.html">heartbroken Seattle residents</a>, who after two years of thinking their beloved 41-year-old franchise would stick around <a href="http://www.saveoursonics.org/">if they lobbied hard enough</a>, now get to watch Kevin Durant play in Oklahoma City next season, even though their town wasn't washed away by a hurricane. <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2008/07/03/seattle-bennett-slam-door-on-the-sonics/">The WSJ Daily Fix</a> blog , which did a brilliant round-up of the whole ordeal, floats this little life raft out there for the fans:				<a href="http://deadspin.com/5021982/the-seattle-sonics-could-not-be-saved" title="Click here to read more about The Seattle Sonics Could Not Be Saved">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>
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			<category><![CDATA[Seattle Sonics]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Clay Bennet]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Sonics Leave Seattle]]></category>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:15:27 EDT]]></pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[A.J. Daulerio]]></dc:creator>
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