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The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

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I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind admitting any of them.

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The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

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Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

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The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

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I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.

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Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

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Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

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I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.

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I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: July 18th, 1937

Died: February 20th, 2005

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