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...Some columnists were bold enough to address that disparity. In a column for the Miami Herald, Dan Le Batard weighed in: “You’ll forgive black people if they aren’t terribly comfortable with white people making the rules for them…When the distrust is that large and pervasive, it is going to seep into some places it doesn’t belong—like, for example, this Vick case.” Wright Thompson of ESPN.com wrote a piece detailing the racial history in Atlanta, and how African Americans...
...years later, Bob Wickman shared the lead with 45 saves, pitching just 62 innings. That's half the work, double the reward. But it's a stretch to say that today's chiseled, athletic players are inferior to yesterday's stars. "Laughable," says Miami Herald sports columnist Dan Le Batard, 37. "What, anywhere in society, was better 25 years ago? You're using better training methods and previous education. And there's a worldwide talent pool...
...spat, some judges were instantly able to separate an imported upstart from an aristocrat. More often, the panel was confused. "Ah, back to France!" exclaimed Oliver after sipping a 1972 Chardonnay from the Napa Valley. "That is definitely California. It has no nose," said another judge-after downing a Batard Montrachet '73. Other comments included such Gallic gems as "this is nervous and agreeable," "a good nose but not too much in the mouth," and "this soars out of the ordinary...
Marshal Saxe: "It is impossible not to admire (although he once set out to invade England) that high-spirited batard de Roi, Marshal Saxe. ... To wrap it up pleasantly, in the quaint language of the turf, he would have started 100 to 1, and no takers, for the Continence Gold Cup. . . . His father (Augustus the Strong) was well called the Strong: he had 353 illegitimate children...
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