Sports headlines
Dan Goncharoff
thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jul 4 15:51:15 UTC 2010
I just received this today: WSJ NEWS ALERT: Rafael Nadal Win's Wimbledon
DanG
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> In today's New York Times, "Sports Briefing":
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> "Seahawks Back Out of Jail." Keeping their guns trained on the
> sheriff? (An apostrophe would have helped.)
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> "Black Tie Affair is Euthanized." The conventions of high society
> seem exceedingly harsh. (But it's only a horse.)
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> Joel
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