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Remember core values, comedian Bill Cosby tells MU graduates
Milwaukee Journal SentinelTWO OLDER AND WISER MEN -- comedian Bill Cosby and Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig -- gave their advice during ceremonies Sunday in Milwaukee on how college graduates should conduct their lives. Cosby told Marquette University graduates...Tags: Family, Bradley Center, Marquette University, Graduation, Atlanta Braves
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Letters: Fans want a new Blue, all right
Check any correct answer to the following question: What is 42? a) the number worn by Jackie Robinson when he played with the Brooklyn Dodgers. b) a movie about Robinson's courage in breaking baseball's color barrier in 1947. c) the number of...
Tags: New York Yankees, Vernon Wells, Los Angeles Dodgers, Don Mattingly, Derek Fisher
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Two Hall of Famers the Dodgers forgot
Zack Wheat is remembered frequently in a town in the middle of Missouri, his great-grandson often pulling out a Bull Durham cigar pin bearing the likeness of the most prolific hitter in Dodgers franchise history. "He was such a kind man, such a great...
Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, American Legion, San Francisco Giants, Baseball, Dodger Stadium
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Spotlight On Who Will Hire Jason Collins
The Hartford CourantNow that Jason Collins is out as the first active male athlete in major sports to declare that he is gay, we'll have to watch if the other shoe falls out of the professional sports closet. That would be the professional basketball general manager who...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Phoenix Suns, Jason Collins, Psychologists, National Basketball Association
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Review: A pleasant 'Cooperstown,' but questions stand out
Jackie Robinson never appears in Brian Golden’s “Cooperstown,” currently enjoying its West Coast premiere at the Road Theatre Company’s shiny new second stage, but the very idea of him is enough to catalyze powerful changes for the...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Dwayne Johnson, Baseball, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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Review: "Mickey and Willie" by Allen Barra
Baseball is a game of failure. The best hitters make outs almost seven times out of 10 at-bats, and the best pitchers don't win a third of their starts. Baseball biographies and autobiographies have a similar success rate. Too many are publicity-...
Tags: New York Yankees, Metal and Mineral, Northwestern University, Research, College Baseball
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Vin Scully is the true voice of Los Angeles
My young colleague, Ben Welsh, who hails from Swisher, Iowa, by way of Columbia, Mo., and Washington, D.C., quickly caught on to what we native Angelenos know subliminally. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Scully: A May 14 Op-Ed about Vin Scully said...
Tags: New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, Trips and Vacations, Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
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Cal State Fullerton, UCLA could meet in NCAA super regional
Cal State Fullerton and UCLA are lined up for a super-regional showdown in the NCAA baseball tournament, provided both survive regional play this week. North Carolina (52-8) is the No. 1-seeded team overall in the tournament, which begins Friday....
Tags: UCLA Bruins, Cal State Fullerton Titans, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, College Baseball, South Dakota State Jackrabbits
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Bravo for Jason Collins ... but he's not Jackie Robinson
Tuesdays with MitchEver since NBA player Jason Collins announced he was gay, some people have been hailing him as a new Jackie Robinson. He isn't. Yes, he is brave. And yes, he is inspiring; gay basketball players who thought the NBA would never accept them now might be...Tags: CBS Corp., MSNBC (tv network), Barack Obama, Baseball, Jason Collins
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Parasiliti: Bells for Collins, Robinson can not be unrung
I got a rare opportunity last Monday. I had a chance to watch history twice in the same day. On April 29, I finally had a chance to see “42” -- the story of Jackie Robinson, who in 1947 was used to break the color barrier in major league...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), The Herald-Mail, Baseball
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One-on-one with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
For RedEyeIn November 2009, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia, or CML. Three and a half years later, he is teaching new patients how to live with the disease. Abdul-Jabbar was in Chicago this...Tags: New York Yankees, Boston Marathon, David Robinson, Kevin Durant, Plantar Fasciitis
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NBA Player's Coming Out A Big Step Among Many
Perhaps this is a Jackie Robinson moment, a historic point in time — but it doesn't feel like one. It feels so inevitable that we had to be reminded that it hadn't already happened. We refer of course to National Basketball Association player...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Nash, Boston Celtics, Oprah Winfrey, College Baseball
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