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Economy in crisis means troubled playing fields ahead for sports

Updated: October 3, 2008, 5:31 PM ET
By Gare Joyce | Special to ESPN.com

You've probably seen curious things in recent days. Despairing traders with their heads in their hands on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Charter members of the Wall Street elite carrying their belongings in boxes as they walk out the doors of what used to be investment banks. House leaders strategizing across the aisle in an attempt to marshal the rank and file into action.

All very strange.

But none of that is more curious than the scene at Old Trafford ...

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