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The Sun remembers: March 3-March 9
March 4, 2006: The Maryland women's basketball team ends a 14-game losing streak to Duke by defeating the Blue Devils, 78-70, in the semifinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. The teams will meet again in the NCAA final with Maryland (34-4)...
Tags: Maryland Terrapins, College Sports, Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks, Boston College Eagles, Lefty Grove
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Hooked on fish, Parkton boy, 11, writes how-to book
A North County author did plenty of research for a book that is now available on Amazon.com in paperback book form or as a download to a Kindle. The book might have come out sooner, but the author had to stop working on it because he had to do his...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Timonium, Academy Awards
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A Good Sport Anniversary:
Sun StaffJim McKay loves to tell stories. He's told stories about the wide world of sports for 50 years. Now he's telling his own. On Halloween, he finished the manuscript of the book-length story of his 50 years in television, just two days after the anniversary...Tags: Connie Mack, Jr., Casey Stengel, Golf, ABC (tv network), Triple Crown
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Artie can take a hint, vows his drinking days are over
Sun ColumnistJust about the healthiest looking patient in all of St. Joseph's Hospital is in Room 407. Certainly the strongest. Art Donovan may look like an animated bowl of jello when it comes to muscle definition, but he has the strength to knock down a building....Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Football, Art Donovan, Hotels and Accommodations, Billiards, Snooker and Pool
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Luck of the Irish
WASHINGTON -- Yet another reason to revere Calvin Coolidge is that he thought the Chicago Bears were a circus act. In the 1920s, professional football was small beer compared to the already big business of college football. Which today prospers partly...
Tags: College Sports, Bill Tilden, Chicago Bears, Harvard University, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Column: The luck of the Irish
WASHINGTON — Yet another reason to revere Calvin Coolidge is that he thought the Chicago Bears were a circus act. In the 1920s, professional football was small beer compared to the already big business of college football. Which today prospers...Tags: College Sports, Chicago Bears, Bill Tilden, Harvard University, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Motivational Sports Quotes
Some well-known motivational sports quotes "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." Football coach Vince Lombardi "If we pursue perfection, which we can't achieve, we will touch excellence." Lombardi "Show me a good loser, and I'll show...Tags: Mike Ditka, Marv Levy, Tommy Lasorda, Vince Lombardi, Oakland Raiders
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Pulling no punches
Chicago Tribune reporterChicago and boxing are a match made in heaven, both taking perverse pride in rumors that the fix is in, that the mob has a piece of the action. Where else would a fighter's wife testify in divorce court that her husband "lay down," purposely losing a...Tags: Maxwell Street, American Legion, Judges, Hegewisch, Soldier Field
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Impressions of an American in Paris
PARIS - The Musee du Louvre is ornate, palatial and extremely large.
The sprawling art museum on the Right Bank of the Seine River was one of our first stops on our Paris visit.
It is home to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the No. 1 attraction in the...Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Paris (France), Humphrey Bogart, Samuel Beckett, Marlene Dietrich
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Minnesota's 'Riviera'
"The Scandinavian Riviera," as some locals affectionately call it, runs along Lake Superior from Duluth to Grand Portage, Minn., hard by the Canadian border. More prosaically, it's the area along State Route 61. My wife and I headed to Lake Superior's...
Tags: Canoeing and Kayaking, Restaurants, Highway Transportation, Beaches, Trips and Vacations
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Readers serve themselves well by providing information
Readers send me stuff all the time. Usually, it is emails containing small bits of information. I save the most interesting tidbits in a computer file and run it in columns. Then there is “the pile.” Sometimes it turns into “the piles.” Those are the...
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Heavyweight champion lived in Glendale
Jess Willard, who reigned as the World Heavyweight Boxing Champion from 1915 to 1919, lived on Blanchard Drive in Glendale for many years. Recently, Willard’s grandson, Jim Mace, of Carmichael, Calif., saw a photo of his grandfather’s house...Tags: Animals, Glendale (Los Angeles, California), Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Sunset Boulevard, History
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