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All-Ego Sports Team starts here
What came first, the ego or the egg? Does success make you confident or does confidence make you a success?
In the sports world, you'd be hard-pressed to find a major star without a double scoop of chutzpah. It's a requirement of war.
Even decent guys...Tags: Barry Bonds, National Basketball Association, National Football League, Cinema Industry, Pete Carroll
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Rays Raise Intrigue In AL East Rivalries
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Let's hope some kind of lasting rivalry, a real, ringing rivalry, not one October of cowbell ringing comes out of this American League Championship Series. And not just for the Red Sox, but for the Yankees, too. Each year,...Tags: Ben Sheets, New York Mets, Joe Girardi, Geno Auriemma, Boston Red Sox
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Tom Tresh
Tom Tresh has died. He was 71. Tresh was the 1962 AL Rookie of the Year and part of three New York Yankees teams that reached the World Series. Tresh died Wednesday after a heart attack, according to the funeral home handling the arrangements. Tresh...Tags: Death and Dying, Chicago White Sox, Sandy Koufax, New York Yankees, Bob Gibson
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'69 Mets set to tear it up one last time
Palm Beach PostNEW YORK — Take it from Ed Kranepool, the original Mr. Met: Even though Shea Stadium is destined for the wrecking ball, for many Mets fans the old field will live on. Almost four decades ago, on the wildest day in team history, they took a piece of...Tags: Baseball, Tony Perez, Pete Rose, New York Mets, Major League Baseball
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TV best bets
7 p.m., WFLD-Ch. 32 House and the team take on the case of a struggling artist with an undiagnosed illness that's distorting his perception and threatening his career; House continues to have a private investigator dig up dirt on everyone on his team....Tags: Mariska Hargitay, Hank Aaron, Bob Costas
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Despite history, time for new home for Yankees
Tribune reporterA little family history as Yankee Stadium prepares to close after an 83-year run. My grandmother saw Babe Ruth play there, although supposedly the Babe usually struck out when she was in the stands. My father got Lou Gehrig's autograph as the Iron Horse...Tags: Reggie Jackson, Jim Brown, National Football League, Football, Joe DiMaggio
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PASSINGS
Tom Tresh Yankee fielder was top rookie Tom Tresh, 71, the 1962 American League Rookie of the Year and member of three New York Yankees teams that reached the World Series, died Wednesday at his home in Venice, Fla., after a heart attack. Tresh was a...Tags: Television, Death and Dying, Management Change, National Government, New York Yankees
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Former Yankee Tom Tresh dies
VENICE, Fla. -- Tom Tresh, the 1962 AL Rookie of the Year and part of three New York Yankees teams that reached the World Series, has died. He was 71.
Tresh died Wednesday after a heart attack, according to the funeral home handling the arrangements....Tags: Death and Dying, Chicago White Sox, Sandy Koufax, New York Yankees, Bob Gibson
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His field of dreams: Groundskeeper Flynn has been at Shea since the beginning
mark.herrmann@newsday.comWhen the Beatles played Shea Stadium in 1965, it was Pete Flynn who drove them from the stage to beyond the centerfield fence, where an armored car waited to take them to the World's Fair heliport. And when Paul McCartney made a surprise appearance at a...Tags: New York Mets, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Metal and Mineral, Bobby Bonilla, Baseball
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Shea was blue collar arena for blue collar fans
wallace.matthews@newsday.comI had to look up the date - Aug. 14, 1964 - on a Web site, but I can remember the day as if it were yesterday. The Mets played the Phillies in what used to be known as a "twi-night" doubleheader, two more losses in what would turn out to be a 109-loss...Tags: New York Mets, Jim Bunning, Delta Air Lines, Football, Johnny Bench
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Learning few things from the presidential debate
This will sound like faint praise. But the main thing to say about the first debate of 2008 is that it happened. Given the weirdness of the run-up, the initial "Good evening" really was the headline of the night. No knockout punch was delivered. Nothing...Tags: Mississippi, New York Mets, Sarah Palin, Joe Biden, Google Inc.
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Shea goodbye: Mets out
Associated PressDoomed by a dreadful bullpen that failed them again yesterday, the New York Mets completed their second consecutive September slide with a 4-2 loss to the Florida Marlins that knocked them out of playoff contention in the final game at Shea Stadium....Tags: New York Mets, Carlos Beltran, Jerry Manuel, Carlos Delgado, Wes Helms
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