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Too Good To Be True
Steve Rushin
December 25, 2006
Keeping track of all the miscreants in sports--from liquored-up trees to larcenous wideouts--is a dirty job, and nobody has to do it. But Steve Rushin did it anyway
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December 25, 2006

Too Good To Be True

Keeping track of all the miscreants in sports--from liquored-up trees to larcenous wideouts--is a dirty job, and nobody has to do it. But Steve Rushin did it anyway

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THE MOON NEVER SETS ON THE BRITISH UMPIRE

Line judges at Wimbledon split 60 pairs of trousers while bending over during matches.

PUTTING THE STICK'EM BACK IN "STICK'EM UP"

Former Florida State receiver Fred Rouse, charged with burglarizing the house of an ex-teammate, allegedly left a wide receiver's glove with his uniform number on it at the scene.

WINNING ISN'T EVERYTHING, OR EVEN ANYTHING

Lions receiver Roy Williams defended his celebration of a first-down catch, with his team trailing the Bears 10-0, by saying, "The score means nothing."

PEASANT COMPANY EXCEPTED

After he and his wife adopted a baby, Shea Hillenbrand, then the Blue Jays DH, complained to a group of sportswriters, "Not one person in the front office has even come up to congratulate me. It's all the little people, like you guys. But nobody from higher up. That's a disgrace."

ERRIN' SPELLING

A billboard in Amarillo, Texas, congratulating Caitlin Campbell on her eighth-place finish at the Scripps National Spelling Bee spelled her name "Cambell."

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