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Gussy Moran dies at 89; tennis player caused Wimbledon uproar with short skirt
Gussy Moran, who gained both international fame and notoriety by wearing a short skirt and lace panties in the 1949 Wimbledon tennis tournament and who lived a life of celebrity for many years, died Wednesday night in her small Los Angeles apartment in...
Tags: Baseball, Wimbledon Championships, Spring Training, Ted Tinling, Jack Kramer
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Los Angeles City Section Hall of Fame adds 42 members
In the 78-year history of high school sports in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the number of Olympians produced, major league players developed and Hall of Fame members inducted from a variety of sports is staggering. So now you can understand...Tags: Baseball, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Los Angeles Unified School District, Garret Anderson, Gymnastics Clubs
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KTLA-List: Tennis Great Billie Jean King
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Winning 39 grand slams including 20 Wimbledon titles -- there's no arguing the legendary Billie Jean King scores as tennis' most preeminent player. But off the court, the Long Beach native is known as "the" champion for social...Tags: Minority Groups, Wimbledon Championships, Tennis, KTLA
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Amarillo Slim dies at 83; poker's first celebrity
It was 3 a.m. in Las Vegas in May 1972. Thomas Austin Preston Jr., better known as Amarillo Slim, had won the main event at the World Series of Poker less than two hours earlier, and there he was looking for a game — any game. "As long as it's for...Tags: Baseball, The Tonight Show (tv program), Obituaries, Colon Cancer, Elliott Gould
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Virgen's View: King pumped for new Breakers
Billie Jean King wasn't bashful about her opinion on the state of tennis during a quaint meet-and-greet for the new Orange County Breakers at the Ayres Hotel in Costa Mesa Tuesday night. She said tennis, mainly men's, is great globally, but the U.S. is...Tags: Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick, Tennis, Lindsay Davenport
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Best-ever ballparks
Fenway Park turned 100 on Friday, standing grander than ever. No place does better combining history with technology, and the clam chowder's awfully good too. In honor of Fenway, here's one guy's take on baseball's best-ever ballparks. The only caveat is...
Tags: Baseball, New York Yankees, Satchel Paige, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Carlton Fisk
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'McMillan & Wife: Season Four'
Zap2ItSince the Rock Hudson-Susan Saint James series about San Francisco's police commissioner and his spouse was part of NBC's "Mystery Movie" anthology in the 1970s, any of its seasons consisted of only a relative handful of episodes. Six is the number here,...Tags: Susan Saint James, Steven Bochco, NBC (tv network), DVDs, Nancy Walker
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Remarkable Person: Jodi Norgaard
Imagine browsing the store for toys with your 9-year-old daughter, and she picks up a doll wearing a half shirt, belly ring and eye shadow.
"Mommy, is this doll for me to play with?" she asks.
That's what happened to Jodi Norgaard, and it inspired her...Tags: Politics, Toy Industry, Elections, U.S. Open (tennis), Human Interest
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PASSINGS: Pauline Betz Addie, Giorgio Tozzi, Harry Redmond Jr., James Woodress, Mark Dantzler
Pauline Betz Addie 1940s tennis champion in Hall of Fame Pauline Betz Addie, 91, a champion tennis player who won Wimbledon in 1946 without dropping a set during the entire tournament, died Tuesday at an assisted-living facility in Potomac, Md., the...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Wimbledon Championships, Newspaper and Magazine, Los Angeles Times, New York
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Morrissey disses women's hoops. How dare he? Here's how
Change of SubjectIn his column Sunday, "We couldn't care less about women's basketball," Sun-Times sports columnist Rick Morrissey explains and defends the relative indifference of American sports fans to the dynastic University of Connecticut and other teams in female... -
Leach, Washer get it done
Rick Leach and Greg Washer had the golden touch Sunday. Competing at the United States Tennis Assn. Men's 45 Hardcourts at Westlake Tennis and Swim Club, Leach captured the singles title and teamed with Washer to win the doubles title. By winning a...Tags: U.S. Open (tennis), Dining and Drinking, Robert Green, Sports, Tennis
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Obama's Medals of Freedom: 'Change'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated President Barack Obama, attempting to spotlight several "agents of change,'' today announced that he will bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor, on a cast of living and deceased figures...Tags: Minority Groups, Baseball, Diseases and Illnesses, Local Government, College of William and Mary
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Jun 10, 2011
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Jul 3, 2011
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Jun 3, 2011
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Mar 27, 2011
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Jun 18, 2010
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Jul 30, 2009
|Blog| Chicago Tribune
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