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There's only one Pistol Pete

By Bill Simmons
Page 2

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Editor's note: This article appears in the Jan. 29 issue of ESPN The Magazine. Any late-night-cable junkie has stumbled across a movie about Steve Prefontaine and felt either excited (because it's the one with Billy Crudup) or bummed out (because it's the one with Jared Leto). I'd say this has happened to me 20 times over the past few years. If I see Crudup or Jack Bauer's dad, I'm in. If I see the blonde from "Melrose Place" or Leto wearing one of those awful wigs, I'm out. But either way, I a ...

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