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Steve Buckley is a sports columnist for the Boston Herald. In his columns on pablo Sandovals gut a weighty problem for the sox, Hanley Ramirez Pablo Sandovals should heed Dustin pedroia's words, and will David Ortiz's retirement tour end the playoffs the author uses no formal sources cited. Steve Buckley makes no attempt to cite the academic origin of the terms used in the columns or the other ideas used through out the columns. He does not go into the research that led to the conclusions. His goal in this brief article for the general reader is to inform and keep moving. The audience for the columns created by Steve Buckley interested in exploring his subject more deeply, and his use and citation of sources becomes correspondingly more extensive

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