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11 years ago @ Sports Then and Now - 15 Years Ago: McGwire ... · 0 replies · +1 points

How naive we were (or selectively ignorant). We were more willing to question the bats or the baseballs than to implicate our heroes, thus spoiling our fun and amazement.

14 years ago @ Sports Then and Now - Sergey Bubka: Are the ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thank you, Jennell.
Are you a Bubka fan?

14 years ago @ Sports Then and Now - A New Champion Down Un... · 0 replies · +1 points

Well conceived analysis, Ms Allen.

14 years ago @ Sports Then and Now - Oden Tale Is Familiar ... · 1 reply · +2 points

As a longtime Blazer fan, I'm beginning to feel the "wait 'til next year" mentality creep in. So much promise in 2007, and now...

It's amazing what this team has accomplished with all the setbacks, but nothing short of a ring will satisfy. Last (and only one) was in 1977.

Thanks for writing this, Dean. Right now, I can't seem to muster the passion...

14 years ago @ Sports Then and Now - Roger Federer Is No 'C... · 0 replies · +1 points

Sometimes it's a fine line knowing when to get off the merry-go-round. Of course we all want our final ride to be a point of emphasis - something for others to shoot for. Risking the chance we might come up a little short...and do (ala Zenyatta), is a demonstration of courage, imo. The same courage we so admired many times during the athlete's career.

When we see an athlete who can't come to grips with the finality of retirement (ala B. Favre), it somehow dilutes the greater body of achievement.

Hope Fed can properly discern that time when it comes.

Fantastic piece of writing, JA!

14 years ago @ Sports Then and Now - 40 Years Ago: Tom Demp... · 0 replies · +4 points

Watch the official signal the made attempt. The drama of the moment overtook his neutrality. I love sport!

14 years ago @ Sports Then and Now - "The Boys of Fall" Bri... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yeah...fresh-cut grass, muscle rub and stick'em. Popcorn and hot dogs.
I can smell it already.

Thanks, Dean.

14 years ago @ Sports Then and Now - Caster Semenya: Has sh... · 0 replies · +1 points

Your comment reminded me of the great racehorse Man O' War who, because of his dominance, was routinely handicapped with 30 lbs. of weight. It doesn't seem right, but I suppose the thinking was, "better a good race than one more foregone conclusion." In my mind, it's just as wrong to limit performance as it is to "enhance" it. Let the athlete's dominance cause the world to marvel. In Semenya's case, she apparently (by nature) had crossed the mysterious chemical line separating male from female, which is a different issue. What will cause me to marvel is if Semenya can dominate in spite of her limitations...like Man O' War did. (Random thought: in horse racing, the fillies can run nose-to-nose with the studs.) Thanks for your thought-provoking comments, JA.

14 years ago @ Sports Then and Now - Death of a Legend: Goo... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thank you for this tribute, Dean.
Coach Wooden is one of my all-time favorites.

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