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I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

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Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

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There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

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Without gambling, I would not exist.

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A word to the wise is infuriating.

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One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

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Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

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I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: July 18th, 1937

Died: February 20th, 2005

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