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Patrick Roy
Patrick Roy Over the course of his 18-year professional career, Canadian hockey player Patrick Roy (born 1965) proved to himself and hockey fans everywhere his outstanding skills and instincts as a goaltender. His heroic actions to defend his team, even when ill or suffering from appendicitis, in... Read more |
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Reggie Miller
Reggie Miller 1965- American basketball player In the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA), there's never been a three-point shooter like Indiana Pacers guard Reggie Miller, undoubtedly the most persistent and productive three-point prodigy of all time. Miller was the first NBA... Read more |
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Anatoly Karpov
Anatoly Karpov , 1951-, Russian chess master. In 1970 he became the world's youngest international grand master. Karpov won (1975) the world championship by default when Bobby Fischer , the titleholder, refused to agree to terms for a match. He successfully defended (1978, 1981) his title against... Read more |
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Tom Landry
Tom Landry Legendary football coach Tom Landry (1924-2000) was the founding coach of the Dallas Cowboys who brought the team from a winless first season into a dominating force in the National Football League (NFL). Over 29 seasons, Landry guided the Cowboys to 20 consecutive winning seasons, 19... Read more |
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Jerry West
Jerry West 1938- American basketball player One of the best shooting guards in professional basketball history, Jerry West went on to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to basketball dominance during the last quarter of the twentieth century as first a coach and later general manager and executive... Read more |
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Charles Barkley
Charles Barkley 1963–Basketball player, sports commentator, author Charles Barkley, the talented and controversial star of the Phoenix Suns and later the Houston Rockets, was voted the 1992-93 Most Valuable Player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). For years the outspoken, combative... Read more |
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Red Auerbach
Red Auerbach Red Auerbach (1917–2006), one of the most successful sports coaches and executives over a half-century, was the mastermind behind the Boston Celtics' 16 National Basketball Association (NBA) championships, the most in the NBA and third most in professional sports. The... Read more |
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Greg Norman
Greg Norman 1955- Australian golfer Greg Norman is professional golf's all-time leading money winner. He was the first golfer to reach $10 million in earnings and from 1986 through 1990, was ranked number one four times. He won the British Open in 1986 and 1993. Norman, nicknamed the "Great... Read more |
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Grant Fuhr
Grant Fuhr 1962— Hockey player, coach The Edmonton Oilers dominated the National Hockey League (NHL) throughout the 1980s, in no small part due to the goaltending talents of Grant Fuhr. Fuhr was an indispensable component of a team that won five Stanley Cups in seven years, a sometimes... Read more |
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Vince Carter
Vince Carter 1977- American basketball player One of the brightest young stars in professional basketball, Vince Carter has helped to popularize basketball in a country that long has focused the bulk of its sports interests on hockey during the fall and winter months. In only his second season... Read more |
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Shamrocks seek repeat of EFL title Minor league football alive, well in suburbia
...Eastern Football League kicks off its 32d season. And...Shamrocks retain their EFL title? Will the Randolph...productive club in the EFL, garner another championship...undefeated in the playoffs and advanced to the...who was named the ... |
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Randolph Oilers set sights on EFL title Summer football season opener set for...
...Eastern Football League kicks off its 32d season. And...Shamrocks retain their EFL title? Will the Randolph...productive club in the EFL, garner another championship...undefeated in the playoffs and advanced to the...who was named the ... |
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Semipro football -- Triple duty for Mahre in title tilt.
...need to keep my mind off how exhausting it...16-13 semifinal playoff victory against the...defense, he fought off leg cramps in the...goal. The 44-yard kick was his longest of...yards on his way to EFL Offensive MVP honors...led. Goforth ... |
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Semipro football -- Triple duty for Mahre in title tilt
...need to keep my mind off how exhausting it...16-13 semifinal playoff victory against the...defense, he fought off leg cramps in the...goal. The 44-yard kick was his longest of...yards on his way to EFL Offensive MVP honors...led. Goforth ... |
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Granite itching to play football, not politics New Quincy team got ensnared...
...Quincy Granite finally kicks off its initial season...will participate in a playoff for a national championship...not allow another EFL team, the champion...wanted to join the EFL last winter and would...the game was called ... |
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FBH -- Mavs/Lightning READY
...YAKIMA -- The on-off switch for these undefeated...victory after the EFL rivals pulled within...be able to turn it off and on when we want...continued his campaign for EFL Offensive MVP with...first round of the playoffs, and the 9-0 ... |
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Shamrocks move off the sidelines The...scheduled to return to EFL action tomorrow night. "I think the year off did the Shamrocks...Irish Blizzard, an EFL rival, to return...accepted a scholarship to kick for the University...regular season, ... |
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Mavericks
...Mahre field goals kick Yakima into championshipBy...receiver, Mahre also kicks the ball. So when...League semifinal playoff game against Okanogan...When he finally came off the Zaepfel Stadium...Saturday. Wright, the EFL Offensive Rookie...a ... |
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