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Article: Going w-a-a-y back; After 50 years, a sportswriter recalls the good and bad days.(SPORTS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 19, 2003
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Byline: Dick Heller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
"The Capital Pages basketball team defeated Woodward Prep 23-14. ... Neither team appeared to have its shooting eye."
- Washington Daily News,
Dec. 19, 1953
That's how it started, 50 years ago today, with a rookie reporter's mistake of belaboring the obvious. Over a half-century of sportswriting, or anything else, you remember a lot of the highs and a few of the lows. Here are some of mine.
* Best game No. 1 - What else? N.C. State beating Maryland 103-100 in overtime at Greensboro Coliseum to take the ACC's only berth in the 1974 NCAA men's basketball tournament.
* Best ...