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Bobby Jones, Golf Legend
Here are some things you don’t expect from one of the handful of greatest golfers of all time. You don’t expect him to get an...
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“I Can’t Stop Loving You,” by Ray Charles
Even now, I have a hard time considering Ray Charles as a country singer. But he released two albums in the early sixties (Modern Sounds In...
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Blue Note Jazz Club
Is there any location in the America more appropriate for a world-class jazz club than Greenwich Village? The Blue Note on West 3rd St. in...
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Biscuits and Gravy
Uh-huh. Shut my mouth. Biscuits and gravy. Now we’re talking serious Southern comfort food. Not for those counting calories, mind...
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Brent Musburger
I’m well aware Brent Musburger isn’t high on everyone’s list of sports play-by-play guys. But his distinctive voice...
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
Go back in time with me, waaay back to 1975, and the start of the George Lucas/Stephen Spielberg dueling blockbuster action movies. 1975:...
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Mark Zuckerberg
If you had to have three words to describe you, what would they be? For me, it might be, “Writes that blog.” I think I’d...
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Stephen King’s “The Stand”
I love to read, but I’m the first to admit that my reading list wouldn’t impress my literary friends. The highest compliment I...
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Hoover Dam
I should have written this dam article a long time ago. It’s one of the best dam feats of engineering in American history, which you...
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Actor: Bob Newhart
Okay, which Bob Newhart TV show did you prefer? Was it The Bob Newhart Show, with Bob as a Chicago psychologist, wife Emily (Suzanne...
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