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Until recently, Daddy was wondering himself if he could play anymore. But the doubt was put to rest one evening last summer. As recounted by the New York Post's Peter Vecsey, the basketball columnist who broke the news of Johnson's decision to return, Magic reluctantly accepted an invitation to play in one of the pickup games organized by Jordan while the Bulls star was in Hollywood last summer filming a movie for Warner Bros. In a game against a team that included Jordan, Dennis Rodman and Pooh Richardson, Magic scored 9 of his team's 11 points...
...great surprise that in 1975 Czechoslovakia's Martina Navratilova jumped the fence to begin her independent quest for U.S. citizenship and a ranking as the world's No. 1 woman tennis player. As shaped by New York Times Sports Columnist George Vecsey, this appealing Reds-to-riches story is as impatiently direct as Navratilova's game. Points are made quickly, aggressively and with authority. "You need a tank to beat me," she tells a haughty Soviet opponent after the U.S.S.R. had invaded Czechoslovakia. The Americanization of Martina begins with a move to Beverly Hills and the purchase of a silver...
...baseball season is with us again. And according to George Vecsey, that means that "the mob" of fans who ruin America's pastime for real baseball aficionados are with us again...
...writer trying to cook up an original idea. When the country of Burma walked into the Coliseum with a team that consisted of only one member (a boxer named Zaw Latt), 7,000 pencils scribbled on pads that Zaw Latt would make an interesting feature. When George Vecsey of the New York Times wrote a fine story about what he described as the "Burma team" (the Burma team lost its first bout against Christopher Ossai of Nigeria), a great host of writers (including this one) grimaced and chided themselves for not reaching the Burma team first...
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