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Former Barcelona striker, Samuel Eto’o ‘investigated over match-fixing allegations by Cameroon police’

Former Barcelona striker, Samuel Eto

Authorities in Cameroon have reportedly opened a match-fixing investigation against Barcelona legend Samuel Eto’o. The 42-year-old, who also played for Inter Milan, Chelsea, and Everton, was accused of helping to fix matches in Cameroon’s second tier after a recording of him allegedly speaking to Victoria United president Valentine Nkwain was …

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Samuel Wurzelbacher, Celebrated as ‘Joe the Plumber,’ Dies at 49

Samuel Wurzelbacher, Celebrated as ‘Joe the Plumber,’ Dies at 49

Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who briefly became “Joe the Plumber,” the metaphorical American middle-class Everyman, by injecting himself into the 2008 presidential campaign in an impromptu nationally-televised face-off with Barack Obama over taxing small businesses, died on Sunday at his home in Campbellsport, Wis., about 60 miles north of Milwaukee. He …

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