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This Sporting Life: Upside/downside

By Jeff MacGregor
Page 2

Monday, May 4, 2009

Eighteen horses lost the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. A few hours later, 42 cars did not win the NASCAR event at Richmond, Va. Ricky Hatton lost that night, too. (I'm sure someone will tell him all about it once his ears stop ringing and he regains basic motor function.) On Sunday, 155 golfers lost the Quail Hollow Championship. Sixty-four college teams recently lost the NCAA men's basketball tournament; more than a hundred others didn't win the national football title last winter. Thirty-one t ...

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