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I will always treasure the privilege of writing the 'Sports of The Times' column.

~George Vecsey

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I proposed abolishing boxing because it was bad for the brain, but boxers were generally so decent that I loved being around the gyms.

~George Vecsey

Topics: Abolish Around Bad Because Being Boxers Boxing Brain Decent Generally Loved Proposed Were

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I never worried about getting stale because the news and the people induce freshness every working hour.

~George Vecsey

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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

Topics: Best Big Competition Enforcement Events Glorious Hockey Including Itself Lends National Olympic Players Playing Putting Referee Rules Special Tournament World

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In recent generations, women's sports have been a blessing. Some of us can remember the bad old days in the '50s, when we would discover in casual schoolyard play that a girl could outrun most of us or hold her own in basketball or hit a softball - but there were no teams, no coaches, for girls.

~George Vecsey

Topics: Bad Basketball Been Blessing Casual Coaches Could Days Discover Generations Girl Her Hit Hold Most Old Old Days Own Play Recent Remember Softball Some Sports Teams Us Were Women Would

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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

Topics: 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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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

Topics: Been Cup Get Good Hockey Lads Lakes Needs Out Players Reasons Season Somebody Spend Stanley Stanley Cup Summers Ties Where Win

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Weary soccer players just cannot run anymore and must resort to shootouts after 120 minutes when a result is mandatory, but men on skates can go indefinitely, no matter how badly it disrupts the television network's schedule.

~George Vecsey

Topics: After Anymore Badly Cannot Go How Indefinitely Just Mandatory Matter Men Minutes Must Network Players Resort Result Run Schedule Skates Soccer Television Weary

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Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.

~George Vecsey

Topics: Civility Code Hockey Ice Just Love Off Skill Some Underlying Us

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Sometimes, sport is just plain pleasing to the eye, like watching La Belle France flit by on television during the Tour de France. I can do that for hours.

~George Vecsey

Topics: Eye France Hours Just La Like Plain Pleasing Sometimes Sport Television Tour Watching I Can

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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