Stan Hochman is a sports columnist for the Daily News.
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Posted 02/09/2010
THE HORSE in the hotel lobby. How many memorial services inside the century-old First Presbyterian Church in Ardmore, before someone told a story about a horse in the lobby of the Plaza Hotel?
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Posted 01/26/2010
REMATCH IN A dinky hockey rink in Lewiston, Maine. Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston in the first round. Knocks him out with a short, swift punch that is so short, so swift, so lethal that the cynics looked at the slo-mo replay over and over and over, the way they scanned the Zapruder film frame-by-frame. And even then they weren't sure of what they hadn't seen.
 
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'TAKE AWAY gambling from the National Football League and you've got soccer," Arnie Wexler grumbles, knowing he's got your attention now, without resorting to a 2-by-4 upside your head.
THE PLAYERS voted unanimously to give Michael Vick the Ed Block Award for Courage (does that mean that Vick abstained), and the controversy raged, pro, and you should excuse the expression, con.
DOES BILL SIMMONS know that Red Auerbach used to ban the distribution of postgame box scores in the Boston locker room? "Statistics are for losers," Auerbach would grumble on his way to another NBA championship.
BERT BELL talked out of the side of his mouth, like a guy spitting out a silver spoon. Had a raspy, buzz-saw voice that could peel the paper off the Vesper Club dining room walls. Back in the day, when the National Football League needed a hands-on commissioner, Bert Bell had his fingerprints on everything, including the broadcasters' throats.
THE GAME was lopsided, dreary, dull. The crowd in Atlanta started chanting "We want Vick" even though he plays for the Eagles now. Because he plays for the Eagles now.
TIM DONAGHY is the ultimate whistle-blowing whistle-blower, calling a flagrant foul on the NBA, accusing it of encouraging a "culture of fraud."
THE FIRST time Penn won the Ivy League football championship, they fired the coach, Steve Sebo, before they swept up the last batch of red and blue confetti.
THE EAGLES WILL get to the Super Bowl this season! The Eagles will win the Super Bowl!! They will win another one within the next 5 years!!!


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