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[bambam1729]

One other thing about cut/paste from online databases - usually these are tab-delimited. However, often times there will be an extra space thrown in in...

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El Toro - all of Olympedia's databases start out as Excel files so I use them a lot. The way I solve the problem of losing the original sort is simply...

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Yeah, Stevenson is one of my favorite Olympians because of the Rhodes Scholar thing and also the Ambassadorship to the Philippines...

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I have no idea about Bumpie, except that Bill Carroll, who we all called Bumpy, was my one of closest friends thru junior high and high school back in...

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Bill Stevenson - 1924 relay gold medalist - Rhodes Scholar, later President of Oberlin College, former US Ambassador to the Phillipines

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Surprised nobody has posted this yet but the William & Mary women's T&F team has taken a stand in support of the men, and say they will refuse...

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Billy Bobs is a great place. Only been there once but loved it...

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He actually is a very good athlete. In high school he played on an AAU basketball team coached by Jay Bilas and Bilas raved about his athletic ability....

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Well, besides that being from my wife's favorite movie (The Notebook), that is not unusual if you use me as an example from this summer

Scrubbed,...

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Sounds like a Cross-Fit competition to me...

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That's probably accurate. Scott and I had multiple calls about it and he may have suggested it to me after hearing it from you.

The one thing...

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Maybe "popularized among rich, white folks" would be the best term, which I would agree with...

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You should have heard the names/acronyms that Scott Davis and I discussed for what became FAST when we were trying to start it up circa 1982-83 with Stan...

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Also, if you'll check under historical results the Women's AAU/TAC/USATF results have been made complete from 1923-1985 for the running events (save the...

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They hardly invented them for that reason. Soccer is older than football, basketball. Of course, track is the oldest sport (along with wrestling). Tennis...

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PVP has got a pretty strong point here....

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Not if they do zero tennis, but if they cover any, they gotta have somebody on who knows something about the sport...

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But they aren't full-time ESPN people, they only do about 3-4 events per year that ESPN covers. Except Fowler, but as you pointed out, he covers a lot...

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I think Cliff Drysdale only freelances for ESPN and does other stuff. Besides, he is now about 80 years old so probably no big deal if he is laid off,...

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One thing, however - Laver's best year might have been 1962, although he did not play against pros. But he won something like 24 tournaments that year...