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'The fighter still remains' ... Battle against brutal ALS goes on for Dr. Faye
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterShe's beaten the odds ... but not the disease. Dr. Faye Magneson has been battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for almost nine years. Most patients live only two to five years with ALS. Magneson was an internal medicine doctor and director of...Tags: General Practitioners, Health, Internal Medicine, Internists, Lou Gehrig's Disease
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Dieter honored as National player of month
The National High School Coaches Association announced that Gehrig Dieter of South Bend Washington High has been named the National High School Athlete of the Month for September.
“The NHSCA is proud to honor Gehrig Dieter as its September...Tags: Health, High Schools, Human Interest, Schools, The National (music group)
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Former Irish star Zbikowski returning to boxing ring
It never was meant to be simply a way to pass the time during a possible NFL work stoppage.
Tom Zbikowski’s return to boxing March 12 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas is the renewing of a passion that simply wouldn’t go away. In fact, the...Tags: Middleweight Boxing, Cruiserweight Boxing, Health, Baltimore Ravens, Lou Gehrig's Disease
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Column: Take a swing at these questions
WASHINGTON — As the unendurable monotony of the offseason ends, celebrate baseball’s return with mental calisthenics. Everyone knows it was former Atlanta manager Dave Bristol who said, "Only trouble I ever had with chewing tobacco was that...Tags: Tom Seaver, Rogers Hornsby, Lefty Grove, St. Louis Cardinals, Bob Feller
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Five nostalgic books on baseball
My father, Bill Guilfoile, was a baseball executive for 40 years with the New York Yankees, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was also a compulsive reader, and it's no surprise that his favorite subject was the game that has...Tags: Pittsburgh Pirates, Roberto Clemente Jr., Chicago Tribune, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Red Smith
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Roots of Florida Gulf Coast's tournament run trace back to Baltimore
The Cinderella team of this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament hails from Florida, but its coaches have Maryland roots. Andy Enfield set scoring records at Johns Hopkins before he became head coach at Florida Gulf Coast, the darling of the...
Tags: Chicago Bulls, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, George Washington, College Basketball, Maryland Terrapins
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Forcing the feds' hand on marijuana [Blowback]
In opposing HR 689, a bill by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) to federally reclassify marijuana as most other legal prescription drugs and remove oversight from the Drug Enforcement Administration and give it to the states, The Times states in its Feb. 28...Tags: Government, National Government, Medical Research, Science and Technology, Diseases and Illnesses
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And now, the rest of the story about Jerry Buss
It took several cups of coffee and a couple of hours one recent morning to realize there was still so much more to know about Jerry Buss. The coffee was shared with Bob Steiner, Buss' longtime public relations advisor and general confidant. We...
Tags: Stu Lantz, Chick Hearn, Los Angeles Lakers, Magic Johnson, John Jackson
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Rosenthal: This is the way to exit the stage right
Whatever you thought of Andrew Mason's high-wire act as chief executive of Groupon, you have to concede he nailed the landing. Fired from the company he conceived and co-founded less than five years ago, Mason on Thursday tweeted a link to a goodbye memo...Tags: Chicago Tribune Columnists, Andrew Mason, Groupon, Inc., White House, Economy, Business and Finance
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Michael McMahon
Michael D. McMahon, age 64 of Belle Fourche, died Sunday February 10th, 2013 at the Sanford Select Specialty Hospital in Sioux Falls, following a short fight against ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). Funeral services will be held 10:30 am Friday February...
Tags: High School Sports, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Ryder Cup
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“Super Bowl Today” schedule on CBS
Channel Guide MagazineSuper Bowl Today schedule on CBS begins at 2pm ET on Sunday, Feb. 3, with four hours of features leading up to the kickoff of Super Bowl XLVII. Also, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley interviews President Barack Obama live from the White House at 4:... -
Lloyd Waters: The Super Bowl and an ALS problem
“Winning isn’t everything, but it sure beats coming in second.” That famous quote was often used by Bear Bryant as he coached and made a perennial winner out of the University of Alabama football team. Bryant and his players won 323...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Baltimore Ravens, Barack Obama, Bernard Pollard, Diseases and Illnesses
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Feb 12, 2013
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Feb 1, 2013
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