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35 years later, Summitt still going strong

By Graham Hays
ESPN.com

Saturday, January 31, 2009

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Time seems to slow watching a freight train chug through Knoxville. As it passes almost into the shadow of the Sunsphere, the gold-topped landmark constructed to celebrate the 1982 World's Fair, neither the train nor the city tucked in the folds of the surrounding hills seems in any rush to find the future. It's only upon closer inspection that the city speeds up and comes to life, most notably where the state university climbs from the banks of the Tennessee River. There ...

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