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Lloyd Waters: If you build it, will they come?
One day, Ray Kinsella was walking in his cornfield in Iowa when he heard a voice whisper to him, “If you build it, he will come.” If you can remember back to 1989, that scene unfolded in the movie fantasy “Field of Dreams.” Ray...Tags: Chicago White Sox, Entertainment, Manufacturing and Engineering, Heavy Engineering, Movies
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Charlie Pasarell, new Hall of Fame member, keeps building his legacy
Charlie Pasarell has long been tennis' answer to baseball's Field of Dreams. Pasarell built it, and they came. Actually, Pasarell kept building, and the players kept coming. No singular sensation for this visionary of the sport. Monday in New York,...
Tags: Arthur Ashe, Nicolas Mahut, Martina Hingis, Tennis, Wimbledon Championships
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Penn State Freeh report should kill illusions about Joe Paterno
Shoeless Joe Jackson would have been one of the first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame if not for his involvement in the 1919 Black Sox scandal. He was one of eight Chicago White Sox players to accept payoffs from gamblers to throw the World...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, The Pennsylvania State University, Chicago White Sox, Joe Paterno, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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Does the official NFL football have a name?
The Fabulous ForumFOOTBALL URBAN LEGEND: The NFL's official football has a name. Giving names to inanimate objects is a tradition that has been going on for centuries, from the christening of vessels on their way to sea to the guy down the...... -
The Blue Team in the Garden of Eden
Lincoln ParkA little background for this post is probably in order. On Friday, Sam1 and I went and took in a softball game at the park at the corner of Sheffiled, Lincoln and Wrightwood, right by where the old Hoagie Hut used to be. Full disclosure, the team we... -
Hollywood in Iowa -- the tax credit fiasco
Top of the TicketAh, Iowa, land of corn -- and now, movie-making corruption. The Farm Belt is learning a painful lesson these days in the glitzy, star-studded world of Hollywood's accounting practices: Like in the baseball movie "Field of Dreams," if you build...... -
Shoeless Joe Jackson Seeks Reinstatement
The Daily MirrorJan. 28, 1934: John Lardner on Shoeless Joe Jackson. July 6, 1934: Jackson makes another attempt to play ball. John Lardner was the son of Ring Lardner Sr. and the older brother of Ring Lardner Jr. I???m not familiar with him, but he seems to be a... -
'24': The woman who knew too much
Show Tracker"You can't just go against everyone," Chloe O'Brian whines to Jack Bauer. Sure he can. What show has she been watching all these years? Having been betrayed by his president, Bauer breaks free of the CTU agents assigned to keep...... -
Furman Bisher, almost 90, joins sports blogging world
WatchdogSpeaking of old guys with blogs (see post below), Southern sportswriting institution Furman Bisher now has one! Bisher, who once famously interviewed Shoeless Joe Jackson about the unpleasant events of 1919, turns 90 on Election Day. I hope young readers....Tags: Election Day
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ESPN promotes South Dakota tourism or something
WatchdogESPN's latest "Mt. Rushmore of Sports" release doesn't make much more sense to me than the last one. It appears Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Joe Namath and Manhasset's own Jim Brown will represent New York in this feature. I'm not......Tags: Paul Brown, Mickey Mantle, Rich Gannon, Bobby Bowden, Lamar Hunt
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Forging America: The History of Bethlehem Steel - Chapter 3
While Schwab was building up Bethlehem Steel, he was also engaging his workers' talents outside the plant. He gave the employees $25,000 to develop athletics among themselves, and the result was a championship soccer team. Between 1913 and 1930, the...Tags: Stock Broking, Chicago White Sox, Johann Sebastian Bach, Babe Ruth, Bethlehem Steel
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Cubs '05 uni for Ordonez?
Tribune staff reporterWith the White Sox residing in first place and the hiring of Ozzie Guillen as manager hailed as a major reason for it, Sox general manager Ken Williams has good reason to smile when he comes to Wrigley Field on Friday for the resumption of the city...Tags: Chicago White Sox, Magglio Ordonez, Advertising, Sammy Sosa, Ozzie Guillen
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Oct 27, 2008
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Feb 6, 2009
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Dec 10, 2003
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Jul 1, 2004
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