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		<title>The differences between American football and rugby</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last article talked about how often do people confuse these two sports, football and rugby, especially because most do not know the existence of another contact sport with an elongated oval ball outside of rugby. Although you expect in a society marked by globalization and consumption based on irrational, people take more useful [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> In the last article talked about how often do people confuse these two sports, football and rugby, especially because most do not know the existence of another contact sport with an elongated oval ball outside of rugby. Although you expect in a society marked by globalization and consumption based on irrational, people take more useful information from other cultures (not only beautiful useless things with advertising).</p>
<p>         Well, if we are to successfully import this wonderful sport and hope that at some point (not very far) the Romans will be in line to buy bielete crowd at our games, you must first, to make sure that people know the he looked and understand what is happening on the ground. Therefore, this article aims to rekindle even the most ignorant novel that American football and rugby are as similar in summer and winter.</p>
<p>        For starters, you will find in the table below most easily noticeable differences, and after that to go further, to detail and to analyze all aspects of the game, less visible to the &#8220;uninitiated&#8221;.</p>
<p>A. Differences between the rules of the game</p>
<p>   American football:</p>
<p>- Each team has 11 players on the field at any point in the game, with unlimited substitutions;</p>
<p>- Each team gets three time outs per half;</p>
<p>- Match begins with a kickoff;</p>
<p>- The two teams are placed face to face (line of scrimmage);</p>
<p>- The player receives the ball can run with it or can care;</p>
<p>- Each team must advance the ball at least 10 yards with 4 downs available;</p>
<p>- If they fail to advance 10 yards, the ball goes to opponents;</p>
<p>- If you fail to submit, receive a new set of four downs;</p>
<p>- The goal is to score points by bringing the ball in the opponent&#8217;s mark (end-zone).</p>
<p>    Rugby</p>
<p>- A team has 15 players, divided into two lines in front or back;</p>
<p>- The front are usually bigger and stronger and should obtain possession;</p>
<p>- The back are smaller, faster and more agile, to advance the ball.</p>
<p>- Begins with a kickoff game where teams battle for possession;</p>
<p>      The player receiving the ball can be run, it can kick or can pass a teammate&#8217;s behind or the side;</p>
<p>- Opponent can board at any time the ball holder;</p>
<p>- Out of plywood and piles are not permitted other types of contact;</p>
<p>- Even dangerous plywood are prohibited and severely penalized;</p>
<p>- Once plated, the player must drop the ball for the game to continue;</p>
<p>- Once the team crossed the line marking the opponent, score a try (5 points).</p>
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		<title>Per conoscere tutto su I sogni e la vostra salute mentale &#8211; Interpretazione sogno semplice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al fine di tradurre con precisione il significato dei vostri sogni è necessario seguire il metodo scientifico di interpretazione dei sogni. Si verificherà che questo è l&#8217;unico metodo che decifra realmente il significato nascosto delle immagini oniriche e scene. La mente inconscia che produce i vostri sogni dà soluzioni ai vostri problemi nei messaggi sogno. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Al fine di tradurre con precisione il significato dei vostri sogni è necessario seguire il metodo scientifico di interpretazione dei sogni. Si verificherà che questo è l&#8217;unico metodo che decifra realmente il significato nascosto delle immagini oniriche e scene.</p>
<p>La mente inconscia che produce i vostri sogni dà soluzioni ai vostri problemi nei messaggi sogno. Come si seguire le indicazioni inconscio, si impara a superare la sua depressione, o anche peggio malattie mentali. Si acquista anche la salute fisica. Si presentano numerosi vantaggi, perché si è costantemente illuminato da una mente superiore.</p>
<p>Quando si avvia impegnarsi nella terapia sogno, vedere di persona che il metodo scientifico funziona davvero. Non è un metodo teorico come tutti i metodi di falsi dream interpretation che trovate ovunque. Il metodo scientifico di interpretazione dei sogni è come le traduzioni professionali, da una lingua all&#8217;altra, con la differenza che noi traduciamo in parole le immagini.</p>
<p>Ora che ho continuato la ricerca di Carl Jung nella regione sconosciuta della psiche umana, il <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.interpretazione-sogni.org/" title="">significato dei sogni, significato simbolico</a> diventa evidente. Ho scoperto l&#8217;esistenza di anti-coscienza, il lato selvaggio della nostra coscienza, che Jung non poteva vedere. L&#8217;anti-coscienza, continua a cercare di distruggere la nostra umanità, provocando malattie mentali verso il lato umano della nostra coscienza. Tutti i sogni proteggere la nostra sensibilità umana l&#8217;assurdità del nostro lato primitivo.</p>
<p>Ora che sappiamo che l&#8217;intenzione di base di tutti i sogni, non cercano il loro significato nel buio dell&#8217;ignoranza. La luce della conoscenza guida i nostri passi durante l&#8217;intero viaggio.</p>
<p>Carl Jung è riuscito a scoprire il codice per una traduzione sogno perfetto perché non distorcere il significato dei sogni con le sue supposizioni. Ha studiato il significato simbolico che tutte le immagini ha avuto per molte civiltà differenti durante diversi periodi storici. Egli non solo ha studiato i sogni, ha studiato l&#8217;arte e le manifestazioni religiose di tutte queste civiltà.</p>
<p>Ho trovato le sue scoperte sostanziale. Ho solo dovuto continuare la sua ricerca utilizzando il suo metodo, per scoprire anti-coscienza, e completare i pezzi mancanti del puzzle grande. Come risultato, ora sappiamo esattamente dove trovare tutti i pericoli nascosti che minacciano la nostra salute mentale. L&#8217;anti-coscienza non possono trarre in inganno la nostra coscienza umana, si può facilmente riconoscere le sue trappole.</p>
<p>Ho aiutato molte persone disperate attraverso la terapia da sogno per due decenni. Ho scoperto il significato dei simboli onirici molti Jung ignorato. Inoltre, ho scoperto il modo di tradurre immediatamente intere collezioni da sogno. È per questo che potrebbe semplificare notevolmente l&#8217;intero processo della terapia sogno.</p>
<p>Ad esempio, quando si vedono i simboli onirici, come lotte, sangue e situazioni pericolose nei tuoi sogni, si sa già che il sogno si sta analizzando sta parlando l&#8217;invasione degli anti-coscienza nella vostra coscienza umana. Quando vedete simboli come la scuola, l&#8217;orologio, e il fiume, capirai che il sogno sta parlando i tuoi progressi in interpretazione dei sogni.</p>
<p>Devi solo rilevare la presenza dei simboli onirici più importanti in un sogno, al fine di capire immediatamente il significato di base. Poi si scopre il significato delle altre parti del sogno seguendo la logica dell&#8217;inconscio.</p>
<p>Una volta imparate le basi, l&#8217;interpretazione dei sogni vi fornirà con la psicoterapia gratuita, e cambiare completamente il modo di vivere. Sarete in grado di fare previsioni, cambiare il futuro sviluppo della realtà, imparare tutto quello che vuoi a circa la persona che ami, e molto altro ancora.</p>
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		<title>Connie Mack facts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy was the given name of Philadelphia Athletics owner and manager Connie Mack, who presided over some of the very best &#8212; and very worst &#8212; teams in baseball history during his remarkable half-century tenure at the A&#8217;s helm. He changed his name as a youth so it would fit into a box [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy was the given name of Philadelphia Athletics owner and manager Connie Mack, who presided over some of the very best &#8212; and very worst &#8212; teams in baseball history during his remarkable half-century tenure at the A&#8217;s helm.</p>
<p>He changed his name as a youth so it would fit into a box score, hardly aware that the name would become synonymous with managerial grace and style, and wind up fitting elegantly on a plaque at Cooperstown. When Mack retired in 1950 at the age of 88, still a distinctive figure in his business suit, straw hat and high collar, he had won nine pennants and 7,755 games, nearly 3,000 more victories than any manager in history. He had also finished last 17 times and lost 3,731 games, a thousand more defeats than anyone else.</p>
<p>Mack presided over two glorious eras. From 1910-1914, led by the &#8220;$100,000 infield&#8221; of Stuffy McInnis, Eddie Collins, Jack Barry and Frank Baker, the A&#8217;s won the World Series three times, and lost to the Miracle Braves in a four-game upset in 1914. Devastated by the loss &#8212; and apparently suspecting his players might have been on the fix &#8212; he got rid of most of his stars, and proceeded to finish last for the next seven years in a row. By the late twenties, however, Mack had built another dynasty, this one powered by the likes of Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, Mickey Cochrane, Lefty Grove and George Earnshaw. Beating out the mighty Babe Ruth-led Yankees for three straight pennants from 1929-31, he grabbed two more World Series titles. In his most famous strategical ploy, he named 35-year-old Howard Ehmke, who had pitched in just 11 games that year, to start the World Series opener against the Cubs in 1929. Ehmke, who had begged Mack to give him the start ahead of Hall of Famer Grove &#8220;because there&#8217;s one great game left in this old arm,&#8221; struck out a record 13 and beat the Cubs.</p>
<p>But by 1931, Mack was in financial trouble and again sold off his stars. The A&#8217;s never did regain their eminence under Mack, finishing in last place 10 times in his last 16 years. Finally, after a 102-loss season in 1950, Mack became convinced it was time to retire, and put away forever the rolled-up scorecard he used to position players. </p>
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		<title>Black Power at the 1968 Olympics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may be the single most enduring image from the history of the Olympic Games. At Mexico City in October of 1968, gold medalist world record holder Tommie Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos gave the Black Power salute on the 200-meter victory stand during the playing of the American National Anthem. They ublogg.com barefoot, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It may be the single most enduring image from the history of the Olympic Games.</p>
<p>At Mexico City in October of 1968, gold medalist world record holder Tommie Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos gave the Black Power salute on the 200-meter victory stand during the playing of the American National Anthem. They <a href="http://emma2000.ublogg.com/">ublogg.com</a> barefoot, wore black gloves, and bowed their heads. They said that the clenched fists represented black strength and unity, the bare feet were reminders of black poverty, and the bowed heads showed that expressions of freedom in the National Anthem did not apply to blacks.</p>
<p>Smith and Carlos&#8217;s supposedly protected right to free expression seemed forgotten in the ensuing reaction. The United States Olympic Committee suspended both men and ordered them to leave the Olympic village. Back home, the two men often <a href="http://spartacusaurica.blog.volksfreund.de/">volksfreund.de</a> strong disapproval. Many of those who grew so upset over the display on the victory stand seemed to overlook the fact that the &#8220;protest&#8221; was completely non-violent. Considering the history of the Olympic movement &#8212; boycotts as predictable as clockwork, the 1972 Munich Massacre that left 11 Israelis dead, biased judging and rooting &#8212; Smith and Carlos&#8217;s act was positively benign.</p>
<p>Later, Carlos eloquently pondered what had gone wrong with international amateur athletics: &#8220;Why do they play national anthems? Why do we have to beat the Russians? Why do the East Germans want to beat the West Germans? Why can&#8217;t everyone wear the same colors but wear numbers to tell them apart? What happened to the Olympic ideal of man against man?&#8221; </p>
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		<title>Auto Racing Families: Competetion Across Generations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Family tradition&#8221; is more than just an empty phrase in the world of auto racing. In a remarkable number of cases, it&#8217;s a guiding principle. For whatever reason &#8212; genetics, the ready availability of cars, or the dangerous, intense nature of what they do &#8212; race car drivers tend to beget race car drivers, who [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Family tradition&#8221; is more than just an empty phrase in the world of auto racing. In a remarkable number of cases, it&#8217;s a guiding principle. For whatever reason &#8212; genetics, the ready availability of cars, or the dangerous, intense nature of what they do &#8212; race car drivers tend to beget race car drivers, who tend to beget more race car drivers.</p>
<p>Most notably, there are three generations of Pettys &#8212; Lee, Richard and Kyle &#8212; and the father-son teams of Al Unsers (Sr. and Jr.); Mario, Michael and now Jeff Andretti; and Bobby and Davey Allison. And that doesn&#8217;t even count Bobby Unser, the brother of Al Unser Sr., or Donny Allison, the brother of Bobby, or John Andretti, the nephew of Mario.</p>
<p>It really got complicated at the 1991 Indianapolis 500, where a different member of the Andretti family started the race in each of the first four rows. There was patriarch Mario, 51; Michael, 29; Jeff, 27; and John, 28. Michael Andretti won the CART driving championship in 1991, with Al Unser Jr. a close third.</p>
<p>&#8220;From a very young age, I was used to speed and control of machinery,&#8221; said Michael Andretti, who has already started HIS son, 4-year-old Marco, racing go-carts in the backyard. The Pettys are looking for a fourth-generation driver in the not-so-distant future in Adam Petty, who was 11 in 1991.</p>
<p>It is inevitable, of course, that a race will sometimes pit father against son. Two notable examples: fifty-year-old Bobby Allison held off his son, Davey, to win the 1988 Daytona 500. And Al Unser, Sr., edged his son, Al, Jr., 151 points to 150, to win the CART-PPG championships in 1985. </p>
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		<title>Boston Red Sox</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To be a Boston Red Sox fan &#8212; and most everyone in New England is, whether they admit it or not &#8212; is to have an intimate relationship with heartache. The worst moments are frozen in time, and in the collective psyche. Johnny Pesky holding onto the ball in the 1946 World Series while Enos [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To be a Boston Red Sox fan &#8212; and most everyone in New England is, whether they admit it or not &#8212; is to have an intimate relationship with heartache.</p>
<p>The worst moments are frozen in time, and in the collective psyche. Johnny Pesky holding onto the ball in the 1946 World Series while Enos Slaughter scored the decisive run. Bill Lee serving up the blooper pitch that Tony Perez hit over the screen for a homer in Game 7, 1975. Mike Torrez giving up Bucky Dent&#8217;s homer in the 1978 playoff with the Yankees. Bill Buckner letting Mookie Wilson&#8217;s grounder go through his legs in 1986, when they had just moments before been one out away from the World Series title.</p>
<p>One&#8230;..out&#8230;&#8230;away!</p>
<p>It hasn&#8217;t always been torture to root for the Bosox. They seemed to be dynasty-bound, in fact, when they went 4-for-4 in World Series play during a seven-year span during the 1910s. But they haven&#8217;t won again since 1918, losing all four Series in which they&#8217;ve been involved &#8212; all in seven games, naturally. They&#8217;ve been involved in both American League playoffs, and lost both, of course. In 1978, they let the Yankees overcome a 14-1/2-game deficit to eventually beat them in a one-game playoff.</p>
<p>According to local legend, the team has been jinxed since 1920, when cash-strapped owner Harry Frazee sold a young pitcher named Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. The <a href="http://www.tratament-oncologic.ro/tipuri-de-tratament/tratament-pentru-cancer-de-piele/">cancer la plamani</a>  went on to win 22 World Series titles. The Red Sox are still waiting for the so-called &#8220;Curse of the Bambino&#8221; to be lifted. </p>
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		<title>dan larsen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the day that he pitched his World Series perfect game, New York Yankee Don Larsen was notified that his estranged wife, Vivian, had filed a court action seeking to withhold his Series money. She charged that Larsen was delinquent in his support payments. Larsen had better luck on the field. His performance in mowing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On the day that he pitched his World Series perfect game, New York Yankee Don Larsen was notified that his estranged wife, Vivian, had filed a court action seeking to withhold his Series money. She charged that Larsen was delinquent in his support payments.</p>
<p>Larsen had better luck on the field. His performance in mowing down all 27 Brooklyn Dodgers he faced in Game 5 of the 1956 Series was so overwhelming that shortstop Pee Wee Reese was the only Dodger batter even to manage a ball three. Alas, on a 3-2 pitch, Reese looked at a third strike.</p>
<p>When Dale Mitchell, pinchhitting for pitcher Sal Maglie and the last threat to Larsen and the Yankees&#8217; 2-0 lead, also looked at a third strike &#8212; Larsen&#8217;s 97th pitch of the day &#8212; Yankee catcher Yogi Berra burst from behind the plate and leapt into Larsen&#8217;s arms.</p>
<p>It must have been an especially memorable day, too, for Babe Pinelli, the umpire who had called the historic game. It was Pinelli&#8217;s last day ever behind the plate, as the 22-year veteran retired from umpiring after the Series which, in their usual fashion, the <a href="http://www.caraffafiltrante.org/">Caraffa Filtrante</a> won from the Dodgers, in seven games.</p>
<p>Who would have thought that Larsen, the pitcher who just two years before had posted one of the worst season winning percentages ever for anyone with more than 20 decisions (3-21 in 1954, when he was with Baltimore), would become the first man to throw a no-hitter of any kind in postseason play &#8212; much less a perfect game in the World Series, at Yankee Stadium? c</p>
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		<title>facts about  Big Bill Tilden</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Tilden was the most cerebral of tennis champions, convinced that greatness was as much in the mind as in the arms and legs. His powerful serve was once clocked at 151 miles per hour, but he especially loved the tactical part of the game, publishing books and articles on inner tennis. When he lost [...]]]></description>
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Bill Tilden was the most cerebral of tennis champions, convinced that greatness was as much in the mind as in the arms and legs. His powerful serve was once clocked at 151 miles per hour, but he especially loved the tactical part of the game, publishing books and articles on inner tennis. When he lost part of his finger in an accident in 1922, he modified his grip and continued to play at the top level.</p>
<p>In concert with his great rivals, France&#8217;s &#8220;Four Musketeers&#8221; &#8212; Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet, Rene Lacoste and Jacques Brugnon &#8212; Tilden dominated the sport in the 1920s. &#8220;Big Bill&#8221; won seven US Open singles champions, and between 1918-29 was a finalist 10 times, seven of those against his other main rival, &#8220;Little Bill&#8221; Johnson, a fellow American. He also won five men&#8217;s doubles and four mixed doubles at the US Open. He won Wimbledon in 1920 (the first American to do so) and again in 1921, then stayed away for five years before winning again in 1930, nine years after his last victory. In one of Wimbledon&#8217;s most memorable matches, he won his semifinal over Borotra that year by the score of 0-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-0, 7-5. Tilden was also a great Davis Cup player, winning 13 straight singles matches from 1920-26.</p>
<p>Elegant and eccentric, Tilden became a star of such stature that when he was suspended and declared ineligible to play for the United States in the 1928 Davis Cup, the French Federation, desperate to have a big crowd for the match at new Roland Garros Stadium, used diplomatic channels to petition the President. The American ambassador in Paris eventually was told to go over the head of the US Davis Cup captain and select Tilden.</p>
<p>Tilden was a homosexual in an era of less tolerance, and twice he was jailed on indecency charges. He became ostracized by his friends and died alone in 1953, at age 60, in a sparse apartment in Hollywood. </p>
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		<title>facts about Bobby Hull</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bobby Hull was born in Point Anne, and he was born to play hockey. The &#8220;Golden Jet,&#8221; as he was known during his glorious 16-year career &#8212; 15 of them with the Chicago Black Hawks, then finishing off with the Winnipeg Jets &#8212; was a scoring machine, totalling 610 goals, and five times he scored [...]]]></description>
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Bobby Hull was born in Point Anne, and he was born to play hockey. The &#8220;Golden Jet,&#8221; as he was known during his glorious 16-year career &#8212; 15 of them with the Chicago Black Hawks, then finishing off with the Winnipeg Jets &#8212; was a scoring machine, totalling 610 goals, and five times he scored more than 50 goals in a season. He won the Art Ross Trophy for National Hockey League points leader after the 1960, 1962, and 1966 seasons, and twice won the Hart Trophy as the league&#8217;s Most Valuable Player. He was a perennial All-Star and has been called the greatest left wing ever to play the game.</p>
<p>Hull is probably best remembered for two aspects of his game: his shot and his character. Along with Boom Boom Geoffrion, Hull helped to popularize the slapshot; with his Chicago teammate Stan Mikita, Hull first began to use the curved blade which would make his own slapshot &#8212; not to mention those of future NHL stars &#8212; that much more deadly and elusive. Hull was also known as a tough-as-nails competitor who, though often graceful, would not back away from a fight and who lost most of his teeth during his tenure in the league. At times Hull&#8217;s nose was so shattered and battered that he could barely breathe through it.</p>
<p>Hull did not just bring glory to himself, but helped bring a Stanley Cup to Chicago, in 1961, as the Black Hawks beat the Detroit Red Wings four games to two. Hull, in his first Stanley Cup Finals, scored two goals in Game One, including the game-winner. The Black Hawks went to the Finals twice more, losing in 1962 to the Toronto Maple Leafs, and in 1965 to the Montreal Canadiens.</p>
<p>In 1977, Hull sat out one game to protest hockey violence. His connection to the game now lives on in the person of son Brett Hull, an even more prolific scorer than The Golden Jet. The younger Hull, a star for the St. Louis Blues, relies more on craftiness than power, and led the league in scoring in 1990 and 1991. At this rate, he should easily join his father someday in the Hall of Fame. </p>
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		<title>Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 1988 men&#8217;s 100 meter final at Seoul was hyped as one of the great showdowns ever in an Olympics. The world&#8217;s two fastest human beings, American Carl Lewis and Canadian Ben Johnson &#8212; two men reportedly not fond of each other &#8212; would decide which one was the speedier in Korea, finally, after having [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The 1988 men&#8217;s 100 meter final at Seoul was hyped as one of the great showdowns ever in an Olympics. The world&#8217;s two fastest human beings, American Carl Lewis and Canadian Ben Johnson &#8212; two men reportedly not fond of each other &#8212; would decide which one was the speedier in Korea, finally, after having repeatedly avoided confrontations in international track meets leading up to the Games.</p>
<p>There would be other runners in the 100 meter final &#8212; all world-class, obviously &#8212; but few fans took serious account of them. The world expected to see Lewis and Johnson duel it out over 100 meters, and there was the very real possibility that in something under ten seconds after the starter&#8217;s pistol sounded, the existing world record &#8212; Johnson&#8217;s 9.83 seconds &#8212; would be history.</p>
<p>Lewis had already achieved history by duplicating the feat of his idol, Jesse Owens, who had won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics &#8212; in the 100 meters, 200 meters, 4 x 100 meter relay, and the long jump. Lewis had done the same at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, and now thought he had a chance to repeat his achievement in Seoul.</p>
<p>The speed of Johnson &#8212; muscle-bound as no world&#8217;s fastest human had ever been before &#8212; was dazzling, and there would be no greater satisfaction for him than to use it to beat Lewis, and get in the way of the American&#8217;s continuing pursuit of immortality.</p>
<p>In the final, the two men blazed down the track. They both looked extremely strong. But Lewis, almost never beaten at this distance, could not make up the yards between him and the front-running Johnson. As the Canadian broke the tape, having clearly bested his rival, he looked over at Lewis and glared as if to say, Take that.</p>
<p>The world record had been shattered. Johnson&#8217;s mark was a mind-numbing 9.79 seconds. Lewis had clocked 9.92.</p>
<p>But the story of the Seoul Olympic Games did not occur on the track. It occurred soon after the final, when it was reported that Johnson had tested positive for steroid use. He was stripped of his medal, his world record and, eventually, his previous world record. The scandal sent shock waves through Canada and the world, and inspired reforms in random drug testing of amateur athletes.</p>
<p>Lewis was given the gold medal. In 1991, he would again take possession of the 100 meter world record with a 9.86 seconds &#8212; not quite 9.79, or even 9.83, but then his 9.86 was streroid-free. The confrontation between Lewis and Johnson back in Seoul had been as dramatic as billed &#8212; yet no one knew, as they crouched in position, waiting for the gun to sound that day in 1988, that the real drama would come after the finish line had been crossed. </p>
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