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    Fox Sports taking global perspective for U.S.-less World Cup

    by Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times Jun 03, 2018 4 minutes

    If you think the U.S. team's failure to qualify for the World Cup was devastating for the players, consider Rob Stone's disappointment.

    The Fox Sports broadcaster has been covering soccer for two decades and had been selected to host the network's wall-to-wall coverage of this summer's tournament when its biggest attraction came up a goal short in the final qualifier in Trinidad, missing the event for the first time since 1986.

    "Initially the blow was absolutely staggering," Stone said. "I was aimlessly walking around Manhattan Beach looking for answers to life and not getting them.

    "But the mourning period passed and the opportunity to finally be

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