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Article: MONK'S SILENCE VOW LIKELY COST HIM HALL.(Sports)(Column)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- February 1, 2003
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Byline: BUD POLIQUIN POST-STANDARD COLUMNIST
A little of this and a little of that while wondering if it really is possible that the major-league baseball season will begin in just 52 days, or nearly two full weeks before the title affair of the NCAA Basketball Tournament ...
For the third time, Art Monk, who was nothing if not a consummate professional and a model teammate, was up for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And for the third time, the voters rejected him last weekend out in San Diego.
So I asked one of the selectors how it could be that Monk, the former Orangeman, could manage 940 receptions, score 68 touchdowns, catch ...