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Times Staff WriterIN the big inning, there was Koufax. Baseball cradled in his left hand, his flinty eyes staring down another strikeout victim, he was the quintessential Los Angeles sports superstar of the mid-20th century, a larger-than-life mythic figure to a city...Tags: Bill Shoemaker, O.J. Simpson, Gordie Howe, Matt Leinart, Staples Center
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Story of the years
1890s 1899 L.A.'s Jim Jeffries knocks out Bob Fitzimmons to win the heavyweight title. -- 1900s 1902 In the first football game for the Tournament of Roses, Michigan defeats Stanford, 49-0, at Tournament Park. The game was replaced by a chariot race...Tags: Roy Campanella, Tom Fears, O.J. Simpson, Montreal Canadiens, Staples Center
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Ravens return to playoffs
Special to Baltimoresun.comJust one year after a salary purge that forced an entire roster overhaul, the Ravens defied critics by rebuilding the team and making the playoffs for the third time in four years. Once again, head coach Brian Billick and the Ravens couldn't get the...Tags: Space Programs, Jeff Blake, Crimes, Matt Stover, Alan Ricard
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Game 16: 2,000-plus
Sun StaffHistory prevailed over irony in the Ravens' regular-season finale. Nearly 4 1/2 hours after the Ravens clinched their first division title with help from the unlikeliest of teams - the Cleveland Browns - Jamal Lewis secured his place in the NFL record...Tags: Kyle Boller, AFC North, Arts and Culture, O.J. Simpson, Pittsburgh Steelers
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Game 15: Ravens crash into first
Sun StaffCLEVELAND - A trip to the Dawg Pound brought back the Ravens' bite. A week after going out with a whimper in Oakland, the Ravens regained control of the division with a snarling attitude in a 35-0 thrashing of the Cleveland Browns yesterday. The...Tags: AFC North, Steve Bisciotti, Arts and Culture, O.J. Simpson, Tony Siragusa
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Game 15: Steelers' stampede
Sun StaffPITTSBURGH - Like their reputation for being a smash-mouth team, the Ravens' yearlong boasts about being a Super Bowl team were unmercifully laid to rest yesterday. Unable to establish the run on offense or stop it on defense, the Ravens took a...Tags: Kyle Boller, Health, Arts and Culture, Ed Reed, Pittsburgh Steelers
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Prime-time challenge: Sizzling Rams
Tribune staff reporterChances are the Bears will be singing the blues again in St. Louis Monday night after another marquee game. At 2-7, the Bears are headed nowhere any self-respecting NFL team aspires to be in January out of the playoffs and ignored. On the other hand,...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, Marc Bulger, Olin Kreutz, Kurt Warner, Super Bowl
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Joe Montana Super, But Not No. 1
Latimes.com ColumnistThe San Francisco 49ers, one of the NFL's most successful teams for nearly 20 years, plugged another winning quarterback into the same old offensive system Sunday. He is Jeff Garcia, who was brought to San Francisco by new General Manager Bill Walsh, the...Tags: Jeff Garcia, Jake Plummer, Arts and Culture, Pittsburgh Steelers, Randy Moss
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It gets scary, but Bears push on
Tribune staff reporterIt was one of those obligatory dates circled on the calendar. Like the unenviable trip to the dentist's office. If you've gotta go, you've gotta go. The Bears honored their commitment to the Hoosier Dome Sunday to play the hapless Indianapolis Colts,...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, Super Bowl, Jeff George, Football, Mike Ditka
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Superb Bears in Super Bowl
Tribune staff reporterThe Bears are in the Super Bowl. Cut it out and paste it up. Roll it around your tongue. Say it once, twice, as many times as it takes to wrap it around your mind. The Bears wrapped Eric Dickerson and the Los Angeles Rams around their big fingers Sunday...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, New York Giants, Jim McMahon, New England Patriots, George Halas
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Bears await victory's price
Tribune staff reporterThe Bears' 17-6 victory over the world champion Los Angeles Raiders felt so good to them Sunday it seemed worth the bad. By Monday Morning, when the bruises have outlasted the celebration, the price may be more than they would like to pay, even though...Tags: Basketball, Jim McMahon, Health, Al Harris, Crime, Law and Justice
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1989: FSU's Smith top Dolphin
Early Sunday morning, Don Shula and his assistants drafted their final first-round game plan. A difficult decision was made: The Dolphins would use the ninth pick in the draft to select Florida State running back Sammie Smith instead of Florida safety...Tags: Bob Griese, Don Shula, Florida State University, Football, Miami Dolphins
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