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In 1973 I fell in love for the first time--with a horse that is. I had never even been to a racetrack when my newspaper sent me to cover the Kentucky Derby. When I watched "Big Red", aka Secretariat , work out for the first time, well it was love at first...

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Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:02 PM

Starr Gazing: A Long Fall From Grace

Mark Starr
Michael Vick's fall from grace has been perhaps the most surprising and disturbing "sports" story of the year. There have been athletes whose falls have been almost as precipitous. But seldom has there been one as pointless, unsympathetic and dispiriting--an athlete who, at the pinnacle of his game, tossed away his life for a debased and dehumanizing pursuit like dogfighting....read more
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