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When it is race time, the jockeys stride out of the locker room, most flicking their whips with bravado. Cauthen goes calmly. Decked out in the splashing silks of his trade, he seems terribly young, frail, unknowing?until you look at his eyes, when those eyes are examining a horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cauthen: A Born Winner | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

AND I COULD'NT figure out who was flicking the switches to get the whole production going. The fact that the whole show was for my benefit--with just me and Sister Wood in that empty room--made me even more uncomfortable.

Author: By Cliff Sloan, | Title: Mannequins and Mormons | 5/9/1978 | See Source »

In Quebec, Lafleur has succeeded Richard and Beliveau as a folk hero, the stuff of little boys' dreams. Shy and something of a loner, he is to Coach Bowman "a model of a superstar." Adds Bowman: "Guy never lets up, never tries to pull rank. And, for all his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Past Is Always Present | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

George ended up by flicking cigar ash on Pat's white shoes. Pat responded by throwing George in the swimming pool. Burns is suing, but Boone says he was just trying to baptize him.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oscar Beats the Odds | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

My point is this: that after the season the Yankees had, in which they won all the Big Games and played close to .700 ball in the last two and a half months, anything that the team did was pure gravy. They won the pennant despite all the verbal rattail...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Yanks Get The Gravy | 10/20/1977 | See Source »

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