Stan Hochman is a sports columnist for the Daily News.
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Among those who gathered at the First Presbyterian Church in Ardmore to honor Tom Brookshier were Billy Cunningham (left), hugging a friend, and Hall of Fame Eagles Chuck Bednarik (right) and Tommy McDonald (below).
Stan Hochman: Friends, loved ones pay final respects to Brookshier
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?
Photos: Tom Brookshier memorial service
 
Sign a memorial guestbook for Tom Brookshier
 
Bob Ford: Brookshier recalled as a 'happy warrior'
Stan Hochman: Stepin back in time, a play about Muhammad Ali's early days
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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Stan Hochman: All bets off for recovering gambling addict - 01/19/2010
'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.
 
Stan Hochman: A few special award-winning Eagles - 01/13/2010
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.
 
Stan Hochman: War and Peace and Basketball - 01/05/2010
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.
 
Stan Hochman: Book on Bert Bell rings true - 12/22/2009
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.
 
Stan Hochman: Iverson, Reid and Vick have staying power - 12/10/2009
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.
 
Stan Hochman: Ex-ref Donaghy blows the whistle - 12/03/2009
TIM DONAGHY is the ultimate whistle-blowing whistle-blower, calling a flagrant foul on the NBA, accusing it of encouraging a "culture of fraud."
 
Stan Hochman: Golden moment in Quaker football: Penn's 1959 Ivy League championship - 11/24/2009
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.
 
Stan Hochman: Great message from former Eagles tight end Lewis - 11/18/2009
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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