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Sports isn't supposed to be life and death

By Dennis Tuttle
Special to ESPN.com

Sunday, October 13, 2002

WASHINGTON -- Jeffrey Garber had not slept well, so instead of reading the paper or watching the morning news, he decided to burn off his restlessness by taking an early morning jog. "It was the morning after the first shooting," he said of the sniper whose rampage around the nation's capital has left eight people dead and two others injured since Oct. 2. "I put on my shoes, stretched and headed out to run sometime around 6 o'clock. I was thinking, 'Man, I should do this early everyday.' "But ...

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