Newsday, Melville, N.Y., Sports Watch column: Fresh start for raging 'Bulls'.

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Byline: Neil Best

Mar. 31--The other day we plunged a hand into an icy tub of Red Bull cans, in a room full of true believers, and drank the Kool-Aid. Well, it sort of tasted like Kool-Aid, if it were mixed with liquefied Jolly Rancher candy, carbon dioxide and a dash of cough syrup. But trying the vitamin-infused, caffeine-added concoction seemed like a good idea given the matter at hand: Getting into the spirit of Red Bull's purchase of the soccer club formerly known as the New York / New Jersey MetroStars. In short, the "energy drink" has provided the jolt our area's Major League Soccer franchise has needed pretty much since the day it was born a decade ago. That was evident Tuesday when the team gathered for its first official event as the New York Red Bulls, a bilingual, season-opening news conference at a Manhattan jazz club that attracted many more reporters than the previous year.

At the center of it was president and general manager Alexi Lalas, the former U.S. star....

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