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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

BOSTON AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE STRONG

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I grew up with ABC's Wide World of Sports . No matter where I was in the house, I always rushed to the television set on Sunday to ...
Monday, April 4, 2016

OPENING DAY: RE-BIRTH OF BASEBALL & A BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY

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From Little League to the major one, there are few things in sports like Opening Day. Freshly-cut and perfectly manicured grass stimul...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

DEAR UNC: IT'S TIME TO HONOR GRAFTON GARNES

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UNC raised almost $26 million to renovate Boshamer Stadium, a wonderful playground for its baseball program constructed on a spectacular...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

CRAIG SAGER IS COURAGEOUS LIKE ALL CANCER VICTIMS

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By the time I settled in to watch HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel Tuesday night , I was emotionally prepared for the story I tu...
Monday, March 14, 2016

MY 15 MINUTES WITH TED WILLIAMS

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March 15, 1988. 30 years ago, I experienced one of the most incredible days of  my life. It was like a wedding or the birth of a child...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

IN MEMORY OF MICKEY PINA

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When I logged on to Facebook recently, the news feed shared some news I wasn't quite ready for:                                       ...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

GOOD-BYE, MISS NANCY

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Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In 1950, author William Meade Prince tagged Chapel Hill as the "Southern part of Heaven." With ...
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Hard-working, creative, and lover of good words, competition, and testing my limits. Graduate of UNC and Tar Heel baseball player. Signed with Boston Red Sox as free-agent. Hit a HR in "Bull Durham" off Nuke. Former sports anchor/reporter at NESN, Fox Sports Net and MLB.com.5-time Ironman, 3-time NYC Marathon finisher. Wedding singer and Solid Gold dancer. "It's not the critic who counts, but the man who gets in the arena to compete that does."
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