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    Oct 28, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  1. Hollywood sports movies: Do fans love losers as much as winners?

    24 Frames
    My pals who are big sports nuts love to heap scorn on Hollywood sports movies, especially when the discussion is unfolding in a bar. Their biggest complaint? The films are squishy, full of more easy sentiment than soul, with the victories being achieved...
    2. Mar 7, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Jim Bellows dies at 86; legendary editor of L.A. Herald Examiner

    Jim Bellows, a legendary editor who built a career resuscitating underdog big-city newspapers from Los Angeles to New York and helped turn Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin into stars, has died. He was 86.
    Jim Bellows, a legendary editor who built a career resuscitating underdog big-city newspapers from Los Angeles to New York and helped turn Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin into stars, has died. He was 86. Bellows, a longtime resident of Brentwood, died...

    Tags: Entertainment, History, Immigration, John Hay, Los Angeles Police Department

    3. May 4, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. 'Everything They Had' by David Halberstam

    <b>Everything They Had</b> <b>Sports Writing From David Halberstam</b> <b>David Halberstam</b> <b>Hyperion: 402 pp., $24.95</b>
    Everything They Had Sports Writing From David Halberstam David Halberstam Hyperion: 402 pp., $24.95 When David Halberstam was killed in a car crash near San Francisco last spring, he'd just finished what turned out to be his final book, "The Coldest...

    Tags: Wars and Interventions, U.S. Army, History, Y.A. Tittle, Bob Gibson

    4. Mar 7, 2004 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. 'Cow Town' Cool

    It's an hour before game time at Sacramento's Arco Arena, and the faithful have gathered for battle. Cowbells dangling around their necks, their hair dyed purple and black, they carry hand-painted signs with a simple message: "Beat L.A."
    David Davis last wrote for the magazine about the Mad Pride movement led by former mental illness patients.
    It's an hour before game time at Sacramento's Arco Arena, and the faithful have gathered for battle. Cowbells dangling around their necks, their hair dyed purple and black, they carry hand-painted signs with a simple message: "Beat L.A." No matter that...

    Tags: Bobby Jackson, Phil Jackson, Casino and Gambling Industry, Celebrities, Britney Spears

    5. May 16, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  5. Secretariat's Preakness run still looks brilliant on 40th anniversary

    Secretariat was a star but not yet a legend when his van rolled up to <a href="http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/pimlico/home/na/pimlico-race-course-baltimore-venue">Pimlico Race Course</a> in the second week of May 1973.
    Secretariat was a star but not yet a legend when his van rolled up to Pimlico Race Course in the second week of May 1973. The big red horse had taken off like a rocket ship to run down the field at the Kentucky Derby, winning in less than two minutes, a...

    Tags: Pimlico, Pimlico Race Course, Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Ceremonies

    6. Mar 30, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. Five nostalgic books on baseball

    My father, Bill Guilfoile, was a baseball executive for 40 years with the New York Yankees, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was also a compulsive reader, and it's no surprise that his favorite subject was the game that has...

    Tags: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Cubs, Alzheimer's Disease, New York University, Sports

    7. Jul 28, 2012 |Column| Hartford Courant

  7. There Was Nobody Faster In 1952 Than Hartford's Lindy Remigino

    Holding two Olympic gold medals in his 81-year-old hands, Lindy Remigino breaks into laughter. The medals show their age. The stories do not. The stories never grow old.
    The Hartford Courant
    Holding two Olympic gold medals in his 81-year-old hands, Lindy Remigino breaks into laughter. The medals show their age. The stories do not. The stories never grow old. "Look at these medals, I don't even know which one is which," said Remigino, who won...

    Tags: Arizona Cardinals, Usain Bolt, Sports, Awards and Prizes, National Football League

    8. Jun 24, 2009 |Blog| Newsday

  8. Dan Jenkins? Red Smith? Jay Mariotti? Who's No. 1?

    Watchdog
    Someone asked during my online chat Tuesday whether I thought prolific U.S. Open Twitterer Dan Jenkins is one of the top 10 sportswriters of all time. I replied by saying I am not an expert on the work of sportswriters......

    Tags: U.S. Open (tennis), Shaquille O'Neal

    9. Jul 21, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Jerome Holtzman dies

    Jerome Holtzman, who went from copy boy to Hall of Famer in a distinguished career as a Chicago sportswriter, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 81 and was affectionately known to colleagues as "the Dean," a term reflecting his stature as a baseball-writing "lifer" and his numerous accomplishments over four decades.
    Tribune staff reporter
    Jerome Holtzman, who went from copy boy to Hall of Famer in a distinguished career as a Chicago sportswriter, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 81 and was affectionately known to colleagues as "the Dean," a term reflecting his stature as a...

    Tags: History, Chicago Cubs, Leo Durocher, Chicago White Sox, World Series

    10. Jan 6, 2009 |Blog| Newsday

  10. Grantland Rice, W.C. Heinz, Red Smith never blogged

    Watchdog
    Here is an interesting essay about the state of sportswriting from the Columbia Journalism Review. It was recommended by long-lost Friend of WatchDog Richard Deitsch, who is about halfway into his fellowship at Michigan, where he is trying to fix......

    Tags: ESPN (tv network), Philadelphia Eagles

    11. Apr 15, 2004 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  11. The opening Opening Day

    The day the Orioles arrived in Baltimore, trolleys clanged down cobbled streets. Kids rushed to see Pinocchio at the Hippodrome. Banana boats dumped their bushels onto weathered wharves where the Inner Harbor now stands. On April 15, 1954, Baltimore...

    Tags: Patti Page, Cy Young Award, Chicago White Sox, World Series, Richard Nixon

    12. Apr 26, 2001 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  12. Prized fighters reap rewards

    Sun Staff
    When Vincent Pettway, the handsome man and superb fighter, knocked out Italy's Gianfranco Rosi in Las Vegas on Sept. 17, 1994, he became Baltimore's first world boxing champion in more than half a century. He made headlines, logged a fair amount of mug...

    Tags: Rocky Marciano, Welterweight, Concussion, George Foreman, Lennox Lewis

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