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Story by Chris Graham Last year it was baseball. Now it’s Floyd Landis and Justin Gatlin … and baseball. The issue of the use of performance-enhancing drugs by athletes continues to get scads of press – and you know what that means.
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Story by Chris Graham Jack Bedell is, by day, a poet and college professor in Louisiana. On nights and weekends, though, Bedell is a football fanatic – and his football of choice is Canadian. “Everything that we like in the modern era about the NFL, and then with the rise in popularity of the Arena…
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Story by Chris Graham Michael McCann, like the rest of us, assumed that the talk about how NBA players who had entered the league straight out of high school were ruining the professional game was at least somewhat on target. So when the law professor began to notice that his research into the impact of…
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Story by Chris Graham It’s spring, which means it’s probably time for Congress to threaten to cut funding for public broadcasting. A move by a congressional subcommittee to slash funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that was reversed last week by the House Appropriations Committee had people again discussing the merits of taxpayer funding…
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Story by Chris Graham Kevin Nash isn’t bashful about being a big man. The 6-foot-11 grappler knows he’s not asked to do huracanranas and five-star frog splashes and dives from the top of cages. “I’m kind of limited in what I can do now – I’ve always been limited, because size does limit you to…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham I’ve got it all figured out. How I’m going to become rich and famous, that is. Here goes … I’m going to be Ann Coulter. You know, the shrill shrew who threatens to eat her rivals’ children. Sorry, that was Mike Tyson. Coulter is the one who picks…
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Story by Chris Graham Bob Jones could sense the history that was unfolding before his eyes – but baseball broadcasters know better than to say the words no-hitter or perfect game out loud. “Now everybody is getting ready, on their feet … the 0-2 pitch … swung on and missed! Strike three! Paul Burnside has…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The Virginia Democratic blogosphere loves Jim Webb – but will that be enough to carry the former Reagan administration official to victory in this month’s Democratic Party Senate primary? “Most of this is going to depend on electability – whether someone feels that it’s more important to vote…
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Story by Chris Graham ECW at its height was the antithesis of what professional wrestling has become – corporate, antiseptic, formulaic. The question of the summer is – how can the people who pioneered the concept of corporate, antiseptic, formulaic wrestling possibly do justice to the memory of the ECW revolution?
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Story by Chris Graham How does an indy promoter make his product stand out in what is becoming a hypercompetitive professional-wrestling marketplace? Travis Bradshaw of the Smithfield-based Vanguard Championship Wrestling focues on getting his local talent over – even as he admits to being tempted to bring in former WWE and WCW stars to draw…
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