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Until his death in 1980, Cy Taillon was known to the initiated as the "World's Greatest Rodeo Announcer." Around the circuit, which could extend from Puyallup, Wash., to Baton Rouge, La., and into Madison Square Garden itself, no exhibition of bronco riding or calf roping seemed quite complete without Taillon's booming, animated commentary. He became something more than legendary to those who followed the sport. Said one admirer: "I don't know what God looks like, but I know what He sounds like." In 1977 his daughter, Cyra McFadden, created a literary stir with her first novel...
...artist can pursue is to borrow from readily understood sources in pop culture. That would describe Basquiat's graffiti-derived gestures and Koons' life-size renditions of Michael Jackson and the Pink Panther. Even if you don't know about Basquiat's debt to the scribble paintings of Cy Twombly or Koons' connection to Marcel Duchamp, you know what graffiti and the Pink Panther are. You have...
...this weekend’s Metrodome Tournament, the Crimson will send two juniors and a freshman to the mound recently made famous by American League Cy Young winner Johan Santana...
...DIED. CY COLEMAN, 75, veteran composer for such Broadway musicals as Sweet Charity and City of Angels; of heart failure; in New York City. His jazzy songs, from Hey, Look Me Over to Big Spender, became hits for singers like Tony Bennett and Peggy Lee and epitomized Broadway songwriting at its most likably brash. A fluent pianist, he performed a cabaret act in New York City as recently as last month...
...Expos were not a good team, but Pedro Martinez was a good pitcher that year—a damn good pitcher who won his first Cy Young award. He recorded his 300th strikeout in his final start of the year as 12,000-plus cheered him on. I know, because I was there...