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08-30-2006, 12:52 PM
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Very nice, Scav. Great reading. Everyone involved with LITF seems classy, as does Stauffer.
It made me think of something I saw on TV last night, and I wonder if anyone else saw it. Daniel Negreneau (?), the poker player, spends some time with a very young fan who was extremely disfigured by fire. You could see how much it meant to the kid. Negreneau said he gets more out of the time together than the kid does. It made me a Negreneau fan, which the cynic in me knows it was meant to do. Still... I don't even know if I was watching this year's WSOP or some older thing that's been shown umpteen times. But it was moving enough to get me off my ass to do some kind of volunteer work in my town. --Dunbar
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08-30-2006, 12:54 PM
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The MNR guy? I always wonder how they got an Aussie to middle of no where West Virginia.
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08-30-2006, 01:13 PM
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This is all class from top to bottom: Horses, trainers, owners, jockeys, announcer, etc. They are just good for racing and better for the human spirit.
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08-30-2006, 02:57 PM
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Racing needs to find a way to project this image, the human side, the caring side, to the media and the general public. Vics telling of his visit is so compelling. The sport is bigger than just gambling. Do stories such as this one eminate from the casino industry? I don't think so.
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08-31-2006, 09:18 AM
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... I'd wager that more than a few gamblers, croupiers, and cokctail waitresses contract cancer ... and make valiant efforts to overcome it. I'll bet if someone looked hard enough ... they'd find a few stories like that.
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08-30-2006, 12:42 PM
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That got me all misty-eyed. Here's to both champs, Barbaro and Lost in The Fog.
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