Stan Hochman: 50 years

A LEGEND AMONG LEGENDS
 
Gallery: Stan Hochman
SOME OF HOCHMAN'S FAVORITE COLUMNS
Giving Bobby His Medicine — A Saliva Test
Originally published Sept. 13, 1973
Frank Brennan wants Bobby Riggs tested after he plays Billie Jean King. Blood, saliva, urine, Frank Brennan doesn't care which.
Ryan shows softer side on Kentucky farm
Originally published June 25, 1986
Buddy Ryan detests athletes that are dumb, fragile, easily distracted. Thoroughbred race horses, inbred to their eyeballs, are dumb, fragile, easily distracted. Yet Buddy Ryan loves thoroughbred race horses.
'Black-Hat' Image Puzzles Liquori Friends
Originally published May 13, 1971
Jim Ryun said that people tend to think of him as a "white hat." Jim Ryun said that people tend to think of Marty Liquori as something else. Then Jim Ryun vanished into the piney thickets around Eugene, Oregon. He emerges Sunday for Super Mile againt Liquori.
A fight to cherish
Originally published March 9, 1971
"Let me go get my face straightened out...I'm bot this ugly," Joe Frazier said. The words came slushing through a chunk of ice he was grinding between his aching teeth, trying to chill the pain in his jaw into submission. There was a lump under his right eye and a lump under his left eye and a lump on his forehead and a crackle of dried blood alongside his left nostril.
THE Fight Just a Job
Originally published March 8, 1971
Joe Frazier picked cotton and he picked potatoes and he picked cucumbers and he harvested watermelon, but the toughest thing to pick was something called "muss."
Vermeil has always been real
Originally published Jan. 20, 1981
He was starting at the bottom, with a team that had been trampled the year before. So he started at the bottom, painting their shoes white and issuing stark white shoelaces to every player.
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