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RIP Joe Frazier, Champ Of The Nixon Era

The late 1960s and early 1970s - in other words, what we now call the Nixon years - were very eventful ones in the history of American sports.  So many names and dates, sublime and heroic and sometimes comic, come to mind.  Bobby Riggs facing Billie Jean King before...

Virginia H. Knauer, 1915-2011

On October 16, Virginia H. Knauer died at her home in Washington; only late last week did obituaries start to appear from coast to coast noting her passing.  Ms. Knauer had a long and distinguished career, which had among its highlights the fact that, from 1969 until...