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                    Book Excerpts That Don’t Suck

                    When Cleveland Was Where Careers Went To End

                    Certain players are closely, even automatically, associated with Cleveland sports. Others are very much not.

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                    Vince Guerrieri

                    Dusty Rhodes’s “Hard Times” Promo Still Rings The Bell

                    Pro Wrestling
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                    Brandi Collins-Dexter

                    The Mysteries Of Seve Ballesteros, And The Ryder Cup Loss That Changed Everything

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                    Shane Ryan

                    How A Whim And Some Hustle Gave Rise To The Women’s Pro Football Team The Houston Herricanes

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                    Britni de la Cretaz
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                    Lyndsey D’Arcangelo

                    How To Get Away With Making An Ultraviolent Video Game

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                    Trevor Strunk

                    Thursday Night Hoops

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                    Damon Young

                    Götz von Berlichingen Had A (Literal) Iron Fist And A Front-Row Seat To The Military Revolution

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                    Patrick Wyman

                    Not Even Richard Marx Gets The Girl When The Other Guy Is The Great One

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                    Richard Marx

                    Good Old Street League

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                    Kyle Beachy

                    “My Friend Is Here To See The Girls”

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                    Charles Farrell

                    Who Could Want This Rose?

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                    Kelsey McKinney

                    It Took One Summer For Michael Jordan To Become The Future Of The NBA

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                    Jon Wertheim

                    I’ve Been Sleeping With A Shovel Under The Bed

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                    Luke O'Neil

                    A Couples Therapist Explains Wilt Chamberlain’s Most Impressive Record (No, Not That One)

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                    Nick Greene

                    A Day At The “Largest Festival For Dogs In North America” Where My Dog Was, Quite Frankly, Robbed Of His Accolades

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                    Kelly Conaboy

                    Walt “Clyde” Frazier, The Clydes, And The Invention Of NBA Cool

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                    Pete Croatto

                    Inside Vince McMahon’s Aspirational, Transactional, Utterly All-American Friendship With Donald Trump

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                    Bill Hanstock

                    The Running Back Who Reads Emily Dickinson

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                    Corey Sobel

                    Before There Was Colin Kaepernick, There Was Toni Smith-Thompson

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                    Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson

                    The Rolling Devils Took On Non-Disabled Teams And Invented Wheelchair Sports

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                    David Davis

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