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What mattered most in 2005

By Scoop Jackson
Page 2

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Editor's note: There's a difference between the biggest sports stories of the year, and the most important sports stories of the year. Here, Scoop Jackson lets you in on the latter. The deaths of Lee Richardson and James Dungy One, the son of an NFL icon; the other, the brother of an NBA star. One a senseless killing, the other an alleged suicide. Both young, gifted and black men. Both had futures that they will not see. Both deaths invalidated the ignorance that often forces us into believing ...

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