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Ozzie Guillen: Why this controversy, now?

Ozzie Guillen is brash, but praising Castro apparently goes too far

By Juliette Kayyem

 |  Globe Columnist  

  April 12, 2012

Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen’s five game suspension for claiming his “love’’ for Cuban leader Fidel Castro shows nothing more than that sports justice is a strange and deeply disconcerting form of jurisprudence. Apparently, you can hurl a homosexual slur against a newspaper columnist, as Guillen did in 2006, but praising Castro is just plain unforgivable. What’s most intriguing is understanding why this controversy, now.

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