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'The Golden Jet' Bobby Hull was the most feared goal scorer
of the 1960's and 1970's and arguably the greatest left wing to ever play
professional hockey. Along with teammate Stan
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powerhouses. He and Mikita were the first NHL players to use curved stick
blades, which made his already wicked slapshot even more difficult to stop. This
was a very significant development in pro hockey, and now its rare to find a
player that plays with the flat stick blade that was once commonplace before
Hull and Mikita's revolutionary modification.

Born in rural Belleville,
Ontario Hull rose quickly through the ranks of junior hockey and by the time he
was 18 had joined the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks. He was a very effective rookie,
and by his third year in the league was leading the NHL in scoring. In 1961, he
played an important role in the Blackhawks' Stanley Cup championship
victory.

In 1966, Hull broke a hallowed NHL scoring mark by becoming the
first player to net more than 50 goals in a season. His 51st goal broke the
record of 50 goals held by Montreal Canadien greats Bernie Boom Boom Geoffrion
and Maurice Rocket Richard. Hull would go on to score 54 goals in the 1966 and
would surpass that mark by scoring 58 in 1968.

Hulls tenure with the
Chicago Blackhawks ended in 1972, when he jumped to the upstart World Hockey
Association (WHA). Initially, Hulls response that he would jump ship for a
million bucks was an offhanded joke but when the WHA ownership agreed to
contribute to that sum thinking that it would provide instant credibility for
the league it became a reality.
Copyright © 2008 Ed Bagley It has now been
33 years since the untimely, tragic death of America's greatest running legend
and its greatest middle distance runner, Steve Prefontaine, and his legacy
continues to grow as the void he filled remains open. It is rare but true to say
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the hearts of runners and spectators. Fans still swear upon pain of death that
many times when Pre would step onto the Hayward Field track at the University of
Oregon, the sun would burst through the overcast skies, as if announcing that
something great was about to happen. And happen it did because Steve Prefontaine
was there to not just win a competitive race, he was there to entertain his
faithful, who could expect a superlative effort as well as a victory. Pre never
thought of himself as the fastest runner in the race, but there is no record of
a runner who ever faced him that doubted that he was the toughest, most
courageous runner ever. That list included some world-record holders and his
most intense rivals. Like a lot of 5-foot, 100-pound athletes who were 8th grade
benchwarmers in the more popular sports like football, Pre turned out for the
cross-country team as a freshman and discovered his place in the world. By the
time to graduated from Marshfield High School, he had won 2 state cross-country
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and set the national high school record in the 2 mile with a sensational 8:41.5
time. As an 18 year old he qualified to represent the United States on an
international tour and finished 3rd in the 5000-meter run in Europe. His 13:52.8
time was faster than any ever run by the legend of the previous generation, the
great Emil Zatopek of Czechoslovakia. He held his own against the world's best,
and had yet to begin his collegiate career at the University of Oregon. In his
first 3-mile race against Washington State in a dual meet at Eugene, Pre won in
13:12.8, the 7th-fastest time ever by an American and the fastest time by a U.
S. runner in two years. After 21 straight collegiate meets without a loss, he
was the hot-shot prodigy, on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a freshman. No
one could have known that he was just getting started. "A strange camaraderie
grew up at the time among those of us who lost continually to Pre," said Don
Kardong of Stanford. "We were united in our belief that no one should have the
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winning 3 individual NCAA championship titles. He would win 4 NCAA 3-mile titles
in track, becoming the first runner to ever win 4 consecutive NCAA titles in the
same event. After his junior year at Oregon, he qualified for the U. S. Olympic
team in the 5,000 meters and would finish 4th in 13:28.3 as Lasse Viren of
Finland won in 13:26.4. The field literally plodded through the first two miles
and sprinted the last mile. Pre would take the lead at one point but could not
hold it in the end. In preparing for the Olympic 5,000 meter, Pre had run four
1320s and three 1 milers with decreasing times. His 1320 times were 3:12, 3:09,
3:06 and 3:00, then he came back with the cut-down miles. For sharpening, he ran
a solo mile under 4:00; he just walked to the line in practice, got set, then
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10,000 in 27:43.6, a mile in 3:54.6, a 2 mile in 8:18.4, a 3 mile in 12:51.4,
and a 6 mile in 26:51.8, all accomplished by 1975. At his best, Pre once held
every America record in the middle distance events from 2,000 meters to 10,000
meters. Alberto Salazar, the.