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Marked Man

By By Dan LeBatard

Monday, November 25, 2002

It's a colorful journey, the one from sportsmanship to showmanship to penmanship, so permit us a peek into the past before unwrapping our present. The evolution of the revolution of sports behavior began loudly with a rabid, flexing Muhammad Ali redundantly shouting his greatness to a flattened Sonny Liston. It was liberating and fun for the pioneering Ali, discarding the shackles of sportsmanship not only to predict and administer this beating but to enjoy the holy hell out of it publicly. Ali ...

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