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THIS COLUMN WAS
WRITTEN IN FRONT A LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE
QUICK QUIZ
Who has scored
the most points in a Division I NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament basketball
game?
A. Oscar Robertson
B. Bill Bradley
C. Austin Carr
D. Eric Dufort
QUOTABLE
QUOTES
Andre Agassi,
after beating Boris Becker at the French Open, "I'm as happy as a
faggot in a submarine."
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Rich Amaral, career minor leaguer, who made the majors at age 30, "I've
been to every baseball park in America except those in the American and National
league."
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Joey Browner, on playing in the NFL, "It's not good for business if you
care for a second whether blood is bubbling from a guy's mouth."
IDLE THOUGHTS
Much has been bantered about regarding
Saginaw's block grant
money and how
the city council should dispense of the funds. Some say it should go to bolster
the police and fire protection budget. Others say it should go for health and
human services. I personally think the bulk of it should go to the police/fire
departments. The remaining money? Why not build the recreation department
back up to where it once was? In the late 1990s, Saginaw officials
budgeted more than $1 million annually for the department. That, of
course, has fallen by the wayside. In fact this year's allocation is a minuscule
$10,000. Help keep kids off the street by giving them something to do. If
the city can't figure out how to build the recreation department back up, they
may want to give the Saginaw YMCA a call. They've recently ended a
three-year Y-City partnership with the city and may welcome another shot.
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As long as I'm talking about the City of
Saginaw,
if they don't find the needed funds to get the Waterslide operational,
you may as well tear it down. When you mothball something along the likes of the
Waterslide, it takes super big bucks to get it running because it's sat so long
and deteriorated.
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More and more celebrities are agreeing to put their mugs on wine bottles. Add
golfer Greg Norman to the list. The well-dressed Aussie, who has gone
multi-national with a luxury goods company that makes yachts and clothing, has
added a line of wines as part of his Greg Norman Estates - a more
prestigious bottle of wine. I recently purchased a bottle of his red wine and it
had a sandtrap in the bottom of the bottle.
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Former boxing great Max Schmeling recently died. Best remembered for his
two historic bouts with Joe Louis, Schmeling died at the age of 99 at his
home in Hollenstedt, Germany. His upset knockout of Louis in 1936 made
front-page headlines throughout the world. Two years later Louis scored a
first-round TKO over Schmeling. At the same time Adolf Hitler tired to
recruit him to promote the Aryan supremacy, until the Brown Bomber sent him to
the canvas. What a lot of people don't know about Schmeling was that he later
survived postwar poverty to become holder of Germany's Coca-Cola
franchise. He later helped out Louis when he bottomed out, and actually paid for
Louis' funeral when he died in 1981.
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After watching the New England Patriots topple Philadelphia Eagles
by three points in Super Bowl XXXIX, my mind drifts to the sack-sack
Detroit Lions. After seeing a well-rounded team like the Pats, I see how far
away the Lions are in becoming a title contender.
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Whatever happened to Phil Hubbard?
QUICK QUIZ
ANSWER
C) Austin Carr
of Notre Dame, who scored 61 points in a 1970 tournament game against Ohio.
Carr, by the way, also had games of 52 (twice), 47 and 45. Bill Bradley
of Princeton is second as he scored 58 points in a 1965 tourney game versus
Wichita State. Cincinnati's Oscar Robertson is third as he pumped in 56
points in a 1958 game against Arkansas.
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