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I try to avoid serving as a referee for sports scoopage disputes, but I couldn’t help myself in the wake of ESPN’s peculiar promotion of Wednesday’s “E:60” interview with Dwight Gooden.

The network got plenty of media mileage out of an interview it hyped as Gooden “for the first time on television’’ detailing what he was doing and where when he missed the 1986 World Series victory parade.

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