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Article #291Re: Professional athletes in Olympics?
From: Elizabeth G. Levy
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 18:23
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 18:23
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In article <10AUG199222593503@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes: >I've never paid much attention to the Olympics, but >have always known they are for =amateurs=, no >professional athletes need apply. Now comes a front >page story in the NY Times about the "Dream Team" >of professional basketball players. There was no >background explanatory material in the story. >Could somebody bring me up to date on this situation? It's another in-joke by the NYT, Charles, to show that the Olympics didn't REALLY happen. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. -- This is not a .signature
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Newsgroups: misc.headlines,soc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!egl1 From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) Subject: Re: Professional athletes in Olympics? Message-ID: <1992Aug11.182344.21580@news.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@news.columbia.edu (The Network News) Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixf.cc.columbia.edu Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) Organization: Columbia University References: <10AUG199222593503@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 18:23:44 GMT Lines: 15