Miami Columnist Edwin Pope Has Seen All Forty Super Bowls

Most people have never been to a single Super Bowl, let alone every Super Bowl. One of the fortunate few to have seen all XL (i.e. 40) is longtime MIAMI HERALD columnist Edwin Pope.
To commemorate this noteworthy feat, the newspaper has posted all of Pope’s past Super Bowl columns.
Additionally, the Herald has a collection of […]

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Miracle on Ice broadcast without Al Michaels

When you think of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey team, you think of Al Michaels’ career-cementing exclamation, “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!”
For those who now think of Michaels as just Madden’s Monday Night Caretaker, this YouTube clip offers a new perspective on America’s Greatest Sports Moment(TM) with the original radio broadcast.
Curt Chaplin was […]

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PGA Tour Pins TV Success on Tiger\’s Trail

The good people at THE ORLANDO SENTINEL have made their submission to the worst-headline-of-the-week contest with this gem: Tiger Controls Ratings.
Who’d have figured, right?
In other news, the paper reports that Red Grange has committed to teh University of Illinois, the Yankees are high on this Mickey Mantle kid and Wilt Chamberlain digs women.
The story […]

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Wedding Passers

Many things can ruin a bride’s special day - bad cake, weird relatives, a lame DJ.
And, of course, an off-target spiral.
THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES reports that a couple in Florida has filed suit over a 2003 incident in which a thrown football smashed into the jaw of just-married Claudette Siar, who was putting out a […]

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Deion Sanders Has Designs On Becoming Print Journalist

Guess who’s writing for the THE AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN …

Introducing ON THE LINE WITH PRIME, a somewhat regular online blog in which Deion Sanders, part-owner of the Austin Wranglers arena football team, weighs in on what’s hot in sports. In his most recent effort, Prime Time longs for the day in which the skin color of […]

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Housekeeper teaches Trail Blazers about class

THE OREGONIAN’S John Canzano reports about a housekeeper who recently found a “$100 bill on the carpet of the Trail Blazers locker room, not far from Travis Outlaw’s locker.”
Sara Farfan, 48, is a wife, mother of four and grandmother of five. She works part-time at the Rose Garden Arena and is an immigrant from Mexico […]

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