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Shooting the Super Bowl

I love the Wes Anderson and Werner Herzog ones.

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Susan Sarandon has a ping pong club

Taking Hold in Silicon Valley, A Ping-Pong Boom Although the sport’s visibility is growing nationally — thanks in part to celebrities like Susan Sarandon, who recently opened SPiN New York, a table tennis social club in Manhattan — it does not yet … Continue reading

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That’s some fantasy!

Jack Kerouac ran fantasy baseball and horse racing systems of his own devising for decades!

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The British and Sports

The Olympic flame, for now, burns bright in Britain – International Herald Tribune Britain, it seems, is desperately short of heroes, and the minute any sporting figure reaches even modest altitude in the foothills of the champions, they are feted … Continue reading

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In The Minority

Games in Beijing Open With a Lavish Ceremony – NYTimes.com At 8 p.m. on the eighth day of the eighth month in the year 2008 — eight being a lucky number in China — the world looked toward Beijing and … Continue reading

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