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Catching Up With: Ex-Colt Joe Washington

Catching Up With ... former Colt Joe Washington Each week in The Toy Department, veteran Baltimore Sun sportswriter Mike Klingaman tracks down a former local sports figure and lets you know what's happening in his/her life in a...

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Former Ali foe Ernie Terrell speaks on his career

ONLINE OR BY PHONE: USA TODAY's 64-page special edition, "Ali: Celebrating 50 years on the world stage" is on newsstands now for $4.95. By J. Michael Falgoust, USA TODAY It was 1967, Muhammad Ali's last year as an active...

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What's Grand About the Grand Concourse in the Bronx

Several years ago, when I was waiting in the lobby of the Bronx Museum of the Arts on the Grand Concourse to attend a meeting about the boulevard’s forthcoming centennial, I listened as the young woman at the reception desk...

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NFL Spread sheet: Which teams deserve to be flipped off?

What made the gesture even more puzzling was that the salutes began while the Titans were laying 24 fourth-quarter points on the Bills, on their way to a 41-17 victory. Tennessee was laying 9, and maybe Adams and Buffalo owner...

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All goes right for UCF in greatest upset

Mike Bianchi SPORTS COMMENTARY How big was it? How huge was it? How enormous was it? It was so big, so huge, so enormous that UCF defensive coordinator Dave Huxtable was high-fiving the media after it was over. It was right...

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Straight and true: Hauschka's future on line Monday

Steve Hauschka, Monday night is big for you. It might be the biggest night in your two years as a Ravens kicker. Let's come right out and say it: Your NFL career is on the line. Miss another big kick against the Cleveland...

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Better Off Dead

Better Off Dead is a 1985 comedy film directed by Savage Steve Holland and starring John Cusack. After being dumped by his utterly-unfaithful girlfriend, luckless teen Lane Meyer makes several futile attempts to kill himself,...

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(Palin) Thought Katie Was Her Fan: You betch I was suprised (smarmy quotes from "McCain source")

Sarah Palin says she was blindsided by Katie Couric's devastating interviews last year because John McCain's aides lulled her into thinking the CBS anchorwoman was a fan. In Palin's new book, "Going Rogue," the 2008 GOP vice...

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For God’s Sake, Not The Glasses

How could you people laugh at earnest rightwing civil servants like Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann? Just pause for a minute and think about the abuse dished out by cruel and terrible people. The former governor, who in the...

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Angelo Dundee To Enter Florida Hall Of Fame

Funny thing about Angelo Dundee. “I work with young people so I have to think young,” Dundee said from his home in Tampa Bay, where he‘s lived for three years after moving here from Miami to be closer to his children and...

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