“I was fortunate enough to spend my busiest years as a recording artist in the golden age of the TV variety show,” Mr. Rydell wrote in his autobiography. “I appeared in almost all of them in the early ’60s.” These included shows hosted by Ed Sullivan, Johnny Carson, Perry Como, Jack Benny, Milton Berl, and …
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ATLANTA – Ranch style house maybe 15 minutes from the basketball court. Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker makes a detour to visit almost every home stand these days. He’s there to talk to Bobby Cox. Sometimes Cox says something. Cox, now 80, has recovered 11 years from the managerial career that earned him a place …
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Bobby Shmurda can’t stand still. ever since released Born in Brooklyn, 27-year-old high-energy, loose-hipped rapper Ackquille Pollard was released from prison in February nearly seven years later, making dance a priority by blasting his distinctive smacks and kicks wherever he appeared. In clips that light up social media, Shmurda rocked and rolled in clubs, private …
Bowden spoke often of the Christian faith; He didn’t smoke or drink, and “dadgummit” seemed like the sharpest word in his vocabulary. He was also an entertainer who loved the microphone and slapped people he had just met. Yet he looked like the prototype of the country boy: “Bobby has never lived in the country …
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TOKYO – Even Bobby Finke didn’t know he could swim so fast. But his uncanny ability to find a second gear in the pool – especially in the final 50 meters of a long-distance race – resulted in two surprise gold medals at this Olympics for Finke, a 21-year-old swimmer from Tampa, Fla. . Finke, …
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USA’s Bobby Finke won the men’s first men’s 800 meter freestyle at an Olympics, beating Italian Gregorio Paltrinieri, coming from behind in the final lap. Finke, 21, a four-time all-American at the University of Florida, was competing in his first Olympics. The race, with Ukraine’s Mykhailo Romanchuk a slight favourite, was expected to be widely …
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