Sports
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You can learn a lot about misogyny from how NY Times 'mourned' Althea Gibson | Mickey Z.
Photo collage: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 15, 2018 “Gangly Harlem street urchin” Althea Gibson was one of the greatest and most important tennis players of all-time. Btw, she was ...
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Was Muhammad Ali over-rated? (spoiler: yes, in every possible way) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Muhammad Ali -- “The Greatest” -- was not only vastly overrated as a fighter but even more overrated as a rebel-activist-revolutionary-humanitarian. Mickey Z. -- World News ...
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That time I changed the course of women’s tennis history (nbd) | Mickey Z.
Martina NavratilovaMickey Z. -- World News Trust May 21, 2017 I’ve sometimes gained personal training clients thanks to the ordinary act of correcting a stranger’s workout form. You see, to put it ...
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That time when male violence altered the history of women’s tennis | Mickey Z.
Edited photo by Mickey Z. (Original photo by Mark Sandten/Bongarts/Getty Images) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 3, 2017 Not too long ago, while leaving the gym, I overheard a conversation about ...
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They Want Kaepernick to go Kaput! | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 1, 2016 A 28-year-old man, born of a single white 19-year-old woman (most likely Italian American) and an Afro-American father, had a ...
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Children of Howdy Doody... 60 Years On | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 26, 2016 Growing up in what we considered "Beautiful Brooklyn" in the 50s and 60s, who would wish to live anywhere else? We had ...
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Jackie and Me: A Brooklyn Thing | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Nov. 21, 2015 We have memories, like flashes of lightning from afar -- now we see them, now we don't. Yet, one can almost call upon them at ...
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'Truth is outside of all patterns' | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. The Activist Tao of Bruce Lee Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Oct. 19, 2015 Teacher: What is the highest technique you hope to achieve? Lee: To have no technique. I’ve been ...
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TOON: FIFA Gets A Red Card | Gregory Crawford
Gregory Crawford -- World News Trust May 28, 2015 "FIFA gets a red card." Editorial cartoon by Gregory Crawford. © 2015 World News Trust. "FIFA Gets A Red Card" by Gregory Crawford is licensed under ...
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The 99 Yarder -- A Brooklyn Story Circa 1970 | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust April 30, 2015 The skinny-legged wide receiver with 4.7 speed* (fast for a white guy in 1970) was running like "a thief from a grocery ...
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Biggest Fight Ever? Jack Johnson, Not “Money” Mayweather | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 27, 2015 While the Society of the Spectacle gears up for the “biggest fight of all time,” featuring renowned domestic abuser and ...
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