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Jeff MacGregor

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The Professional

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EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED

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Huck Finn's Last Ride

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Imitation of Life

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Let Us Now Raze Famous Men

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Why We Play

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International Man Of Mystery

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Speed Demon Jeff Gordon is deified by millions as the paragon of all that's right about America, and vilified by millions more as the blue-eyed devil who will be the wrack and ruin of NASCAR. Could they both be right?

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Road Rage There's nothing on the track that NASCAR points leader Tony Stewart can't handle--except himself

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. and NASCAR Nation Sixteen months after the death of its biggest star, stock car racing is bigger than ever, propelled by a new generation of drivers burning rubber through the intersection of sports and commerce

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It's a Dog-Eat-Dog World In Hollywood everybody has a stand-in, even the foxes. Strange days with the members of the West Hills Hunt as they follow their highbred hounds in pursuit of another canine--the wily coyote

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EndGames In an imaginary colloquy, NBC's top talents ponder why the Olympics are a ratings dud

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Heavyweight Champion of the Word In an era when America's great sportswriters were as big as the athletes they covered, W.C. Heinz may have been the best of the bunch

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Bang the Fans Slowly A bombardment of ads and bad music make a trip to the ballpark just like watching TV--only louder

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Unconditional Love A late Red Sox fan and a fanatical wrestling maven provide insights into our passionate devotion to sports

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Twilight of The Scribes Sportswriters will soon be dinosaurs, driven to extinction by the Ice Age of the Internet

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Hold Your Horses By applying a rigorous set of standards it's possible to separate sport from shinola

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Praise Be To Nitschke Invoking one of these gods of sport could render postgame proselytizing a bit more palatable

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Muddied But Unbowed This was the season he was going to ascend to the cosmology of one-name stars. This was the year his team was going to The Big Show. This was the year it all fell apart...yet Keyshawn Johnson continues to shine

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Out Of Sync Just one thing stands between Bill May and his dream of competing for an Olympic medal: He's not a woman

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Old Masters By adhering to its minimalist TV policy, Augusta National gives stodgy tradition a good name

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Indecent Overexposure Today's saturation TV sports coverage leaves nothing to a fan's imagination

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Boom With A View Sports on TV 24/7--it doesn't get any better than that, right? That's what they said about the market in '29

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Ad To The Bone Sports owners attempting to suck up every last advertising dollar are giving naked greed a bad name

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Less Than Murder When Jesse Boulerice laid out Andrew Long with a vicious high stick, was it just hockey, or something much worse?

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Snakes Alive!

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