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HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Chiefs running back Isiah Pacheco was relaxed Wednesday as reporters peppered him with questions, the opposite of his running style that has commonly been described as angry. Pacheco, though, knows how to keep an event even as enormous as the Super Bowl in perspective. This season, Pacheco started 13 games and gained 935 yards on a 4.6 average. He played on three Super Bowl champions with the 49ers. He is the fourth back to start a Super Bowl in each of his first two seasons, joining Duane Thomas and Tony Dorsett of the Dallas Cowboys and Chuck Foreman of the Minnesota Vikings.

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“America's Team.”The team that much of America loved, and perhaps just as much loved to hate. The title these days has fallen on the Kansas City Chiefs, who play the San Francisco 49ers next weekend in their fourth Super Bowl in five years. Just like so many versions of “America's Team," though, a certain amount of fatigue also is setting in. They can make it four next Sunday, when they play the 49ers in a Super Bowl trending to be the most expensive ticket in history. We’ve got an even bigger target on our back than we did last year,” Chiefs safety Justin Reid said.

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☆ One More Chorus of ‘Humm Baby’ for a Baseball Lifer
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Scott Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

On the fringe of a quiet golf course in the foothills outside San Diego, music from the Highwaymen galloped from the sound system. Family and baseball, inextricably intertwined, had gathered to say one final goodbye to Roger Craig. Horses and golf, two other staples in this North Carolina country boy’s life, gracefully filled the green pastures and dusty trails of the imagination as the songs rang out. I was a highwaymanAlong the coach roads, I did rideCraig was 93 when he died this month. He was married to his beloved Carolyn for 71 of those years.

Persons: Roger Craig ., Craig, Carolyn, gleamed Organizations: Major League Baseball Locations: San Diego, North Carolina

☆ Roger Craig, Teacher of an Era-Defining Pitch, Is Dead at 93
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Richard Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

After pitching in the Dodgers’ minor league system and serving in the Army, Craig made his debut with Brooklyn in July 1955. He pitched for the Dodgers again in the 1956 World Series, taking the loss in Game 3 of the seven-game series win for the Yankees. in shutouts, with four, as the Dodgers won their first pennant in Los Angeles. Craig pitched mostly in relief before he was chosen by the Mets as their No. The Mets traded Craig to the Cardinals before the 1964 season, and he won Game 4 of the World Series in relief as St. Louis beat the Yankees in seven games.

Persons: Mike Scioscia, Roger Lee Craig, John, Mamie Craig, Craig, Connie Mack, Hobie Landrith, Elio Chacon, Louis Organizations: Dodgers, Angels, Associated Press, North Carolina State University, Dodgers ’, Army, Brooklyn, Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox, Mets, Houston, Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Phillies Locations: Durham, N.C, North, Los Angeles

☆ Maury Wills, Dodgers shortstop famous for base-stealing, dies at 89
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

LOS ANGELES — Maury Wills, who intimidated pitchers with his base-stealing prowess as a shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers on three World Series championship teams, has died. Wills played on World Series title teams in 1959, ’63 and ’65 during his first eight seasons with the Dodgers. Maury Wills of the Los Angeles Dodgers in Vero Beach, Fla., in 1964. After the game, Wills left with his MVP trophy and showed it to the guard. After retiring with the Dodgers in 1972, Wills worked an analyst at NBC for five years.

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