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Secretariat's Preakness run still looks brilliant on 40th anniversary
Secretariat was a star but not yet a legend when his van rolled up to Pimlico Race Course in the second week of May 1973. The big red horse had taken off like a rocket ship to run down the field at the Kentucky Derby, winning in less than two minutes, a...Tags: Pimlico Race Course, Belmont Stakes, Equestrian, Churchill Downs, Triple Crown
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Five nostalgic books on baseball
My father, Bill Guilfoile, was a baseball executive for 40 years with the New York Yankees, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was also a compulsive reader, and it's no surprise that his favorite subject was the game that has...Tags: Bill Veeck, Roberto Clemente Jr., New York Yankees, Baseball, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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There Was Nobody Faster In 1952 Than Hartford's Lindy Remigino
The Hartford CourantHolding two Olympic gold medals in his 81-year-old hands, Lindy Remigino breaks into laughter. The medals show their age. The stories do not. The stories never grow old. "Look at these medals, I don't even know which one is which," said Remigino, who won...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Football, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Arizona Cardinals
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Hollywood sports movies: Do fans love losers as much as winners?
24 FramesMy pals who are big sports nuts love to heap scorn on Hollywood sports movies, especially when the discussion is unfolding in a bar. Their biggest complaint? The films are squishy, full of more easy sentiment than soul, with the victories being achieved... -
Dan Jenkins? Red Smith? Jay Mariotti? Who's No. 1?
WatchdogSomeone asked during my online chat Tuesday whether I thought prolific U.S. Open Twitterer Dan Jenkins is one of the top 10 sportswriters of all time. I replied by saying I am not an expert on the work of sportswriters......Tags: U.S. Open (tennis), Shaquille O'Neal
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Grantland Rice, W.C. Heinz, Red Smith never blogged
WatchdogHere is an interesting essay about the state of sportswriting from the Columbia Journalism Review. It was recommended by long-lost Friend of WatchDog Richard Deitsch, who is about halfway into his fellowship at Michigan, where he is trying to fix......Tags: Michigan, ESPN (tv network), Philadelphia Eagles
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The opening Opening Day
The day the Orioles arrived in Baltimore, trolleys clanged down cobbled streets. Kids rushed to see Pinocchio at the Hippodrome. Banana boats dumped their bushels onto weathered wharves where the Inner Harbor now stands. On April 15, 1954, Baltimore...
Tags: Richard Nixon, World Series, American League, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers
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Prized fighters reap rewards
Sun StaffWhen Vincent Pettway, the handsome man and superb fighter, knocked out Italy's Gianfranco Rosi in Las Vegas on Sept. 17, 1994, he became Baltimore's first world boxing champion in more than half a century. He made headlines, logged a fair amount of mug...Tags: Football, George Foreman, Boxing, Lennox Lewis, Middleweight Boxing
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Jun 24, 2009
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Apr 15, 2004
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Apr 26, 2001
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