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Michael Green's avatar

First, I called him Tuck-k-ker K-K-Karlson, but that's also based on him having slandered me on his show. I may adopt your first name for him.

Second, my all-time favorite sportswriter was Red Smith, whose given name was Walter Wellesley Smith, prompting his editor to call him the greatest sportswriter ever to have the names of two women's colleges in his name. In 1944, he covered an Army-Notre Dame game that Army won 59-0. Really. And this was his lede:

"Quiet country churchyards from Killarney to Kimberly gave off a strange, whirring sound this afternoon as departed Irish whirled and spun and did flipflops under the sod."

If you go out to Arlington and stand by Bobby Kennedy's grave, you can hear the same. Ethel Kennedy must be sitting at home and wondering where she went wrong.

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TCinLA's avatar

Well, obviously the difference was that West Point wasn't losing any of their football players to the draft, unlike Notre Dame. :-)

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JDinTX's avatar

I doubt that she is but, that moron has tainted the name for decades

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