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All our lives are enriched by the leadership and excellence and confidence of female athletes, whether the Mia Hamms and Maya Moores we know or the field hockey, lacrosse and track and field athletes we do not necessarily know.
~ George Vecsey
All Our Lives
Athletes
Confidence
Enriched
Excellence
Female
Field
Hockey
Know
Leadership
Lives
Necessarily
Our
Our Lives
Track
Track And Field
Whether
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As my wife will attest, I do not shop casually.
~ George Vecsey
Casually
Shop
Wife
Will
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Athletes are used to battling. The public would never learn their names if professional athletes had not shown courage at an early age. They learn they can overcome, but sometimes this becomes a false sense of security that leads them to the edge.
~ George Vecsey
Age
Athletes
Battling
Becomes
Courage
Early
Early Age
Edge
False
False Sense
Had
Leads
Learn
Names
Never
Overcome
Professional
Professional Athletes
Public
Security
Sense
Shown
Sometimes
Them
Used
Would
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Ball caps travel far and wide. They do far more than keep the sun out of your eyes or the cold off your head. Ball caps are a statement.
~ George Vecsey
Ball
Caps
Cold
Eyes
Far
Far And Wide
Head
Keep
More
Off
Out
Statement
Sun
Than
Travel
Wide
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Baseball cannot avoid conflicts. Games are played on Good Friday, the most solemn day on the Christian calendar. On Oct. 2, 1978, they played on Rosh Hashana, and Bucky Dent hit one into the screen at Fenway Park. Supply your own moral.
~ George Vecsey
Avoid
Baseball
Calendar
Cannot
Christian
Conflicts
Day
Dent
Friday
Games
Good
Good Friday
Hit
Moral
Most
Own
Park
Played
Screen
Solemn
Supply
Your
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Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks.
~ George Vecsey
Baseball
Because
Game
Geography
Pitchers
Shifts
Starting
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Certain Stanley Cup traditions remain intact, including the handshake line between players who had been belting one another for a couple of weeks.
~ George Vecsey
Another
Been
Between
Certain
Couple
Cup
Had
Handshake
Including
Intact
Line
Players
Remain
Stanley
Stanley Cup
Traditions
Weeks
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Every spring, this happens: People discover hockey when daylight lasts longer and men grow beards and tie games do not end in shootouts but rather continue until a goal is scored. The seventh game only heightens the mood for players and fans alike.
~ George Vecsey
Alike
Continue
Daylight
Discover
End
Every
Fans
Game
Games
Goal
Grow
Happens
Heightens
Hockey
Lasts
Longer
Men
Mood
Only
People
Players
Rather
Seventh
Spring
Tie
Until
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Fans all have their memories of pennant races, good memories, sick memories.
~ George Vecsey
Fans
Good
Memories
Pennant
Races
Sick
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FIFA is a vuvuzela. It's in your ear, but you don't want to hear it, and then eventually it goes away.
~ George Vecsey
Away
Ear
Eventually
FIFA
Goes
Hear
Then
Want
You
Your
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Flo Hyman became America's best-known volleyball player with a faulty aorta, but she did not know it.
~ George Vecsey
America
Became
Did
Know
Player
She
Volleyball
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For good reasons, there are no ties during the Stanley Cup season. Somebody needs to win so the lads can get out to their cottages on the lakes, where all hockey players spend their summers, or so I have been told.
~ George Vecsey
Been
Cup
Get
Good
Hockey
Hockey Players
Lads
Lakes
Needs
Out
Players
Reasons
Season
Somebody
Spend
Stanley
Stanley Cup
Summers
Ties
Where
Win
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For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.
~ George Vecsey
Advised
Because
Bullying
George
Get
He
His
Hometown
Out
Town
Years
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For years, I have been harboring memories of my first major league game at a place named Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.
~ George Vecsey
Been
Brooklyn
Field
First
Game
League
Major
Major League
Memories
Named
Place
Years
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Having been aware of the Red Sox since the 1946 World Series, having been growled at by Ted Williams as a young reporter in 1960, having been present at the horror of 1986 and the comeback of 2004, I have seen the highs and lows of some other people's favorite team.
~ George Vecsey
Aware
Been
Comeback
Favorite
Having
Highs
Horror
Lows
Other
People
Present
Red
Red Sox
Reporter
Seen
Series
Since
Some
Sox
Team
Ted
Ted Williams
Williams
World
World Series
Young
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Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country.
~ George Vecsey
19th Century
Began
Canada
Century
Country
Dates
English
Handshake
Historians
Hockey
Imagined
Imitating
Kids
Old
Old Country
Prairie
Preached
Say
Settlers
Soon
Sportsmanship
Tough
Upper-Class
Urban
Version
Who
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Hockey lends itself to special events, including the Olympic competition: a glorious tournament of the best players in the world, putting on their national jerseys and playing on big rinks with no-goon Olympic rules and referee enforcement.
~ George Vecsey
Best
Big
Competition
Enforcement
Events
Glorious
Hockey
Including
Itself
Lends
National
Olympic
Players
Playing
Putting
Referee
Rules
Special
Tournament
World
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Hockey suffers from being compared to itself in ways that other sports are not. Every four years, some of us fawn over Olympic hockey, a great event with bigger rinks, minimal goonishness and national pride in addition to the heightened skills of veritable all-star squads.
~ George Vecsey
Addition
All-Star
Being
Bigger
Compared
Event
Every
Four
Great
Hockey
Itself
Minimal
National
Olympic
Other
Over
Pride
Skills
Some
Sports
Suffers
Us
Ways
Years
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Hundreds of ballplayers have performed well after Tommy John surgery, in which an elbow ligament is replaced by material from elsewhere on the body. More and more, athletes will perform with a bit of this or a bit of that in a joint or muscle.
~ George Vecsey
After
Athletes
Bit
Body
Elbow
Elsewhere
Hundreds
John
Joint
Material
More
More And More
Muscle
Perform
Performed
Replaced
Surgery
Tommy
Well
Which
Will
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I know, I know - men have that extra hero gene in their foolish makeup; it's part of our charm. But I happen to know some women who have their inner sports hero, too.
~ George Vecsey
Charm
Extra
Foolish
Gene
Happen
Hero
Inner
Know
Makeup
Men
Our
Part
Some
Sports
Too
Who
Women
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