A DAY OF FIRSTS–AND LASTING MEMORIES
A single heartbeat, Frank Thomas calls it, and if the White Sox need a slogan, it is better than most. Win the season opener on the road 9-2 and anything...
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AS AT THE ALAMO, THE HEROES HERE DIDN’T WIN
Just a few blocks from where Kentucky and Utah played a little basketball game of 'Cats and 'dogs Monday night--Wildcats and Underdogs, that is--the Alamo sits amid modern clutter, pale,...
TUBBY’S GREEN THUMB MAY BE NURTURING A NATIONAL CHAMPION
Curiosity demands the origin of the nickname Tubby for Kentucky's basketball coach because he is decidedly not. Tubby, that is. Orlando Smith is one of 17 children, the sixth in...
STANFORD’S HIGH ROAD HAS NO PLACE HERE
Gracious losers are still, after all, losers. And when one of them is Stanford, nobody is likely to remember very long anyhow. Kentucky will go, as Kentucky usually does, into...
SINCE WHEN DO CATS NEED HELP LOSING?
Purdue basketball coach Gene Keady took the news about Northwestern like a guy who had just been told Janet Reno was a bookie. "Surprised? I'm always surprised," Keady said. "I...
HARRY WOULD PREFER MORE PITCHING TO MORE SINGING
The trouble with Harry is we can't let him go. Elvis. The Beatles. Harry Caray. Holy Cow. Wouldn't he get a good laugh? The best way to honor ol' Harry...
NO KLUTZES AT THIS BIG DANCE
Finally, Four. This college basketball elimination has already lasted longer than most Middle East wars, the Iditarod and the entire career of Billy Ray Cyrus. North Carolina. Kentucky. Utah. Stanford....
DON’T TAKE UTES LIGHTLY–ESPECIALLY THEIR COACH
The most intriguing prospect facing Utah in the Final Four is what to do with 300-plus-pounds coach Rick Majerus should the Utes further astound the basketball world by winning the...
ON THIS NIGHT, WEST WAS BETTER THAN THE EAST
After all, the one-on-one game proposed by West Virginia coach Gale Catlett against Utah coach Rick Majerus might have been a better ticket than their two teams in the West...
WEARIN’ OUT O’ THE GREEN COMES LATER
A fittin' St. Patrick's Day for baseball it was, too, featuring those two fine Irish teams, the San Dieg O'Padres and the Chicag O'White Sox. Making it all the more...