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The perfect gift

By Jay Cronley
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, December 1, 2008

Somebody said he wanted to get me a little something for the holidays. I said he shouldn't have. He said he hadn't yet, he was only at the wanting-to stage, and smiled. The race track or simulcast venue is a great place to be over the holidays. Most decorations make the leg lamp in the great Jean Shepherd Christmas movie seem stylish. There's a very good reason why "A Christmas Story" is such a good movie. The person who wrote the novel also wrote the screenplay. Nothing evokes the holiday sp ...

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