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Celebrating with a fist pump makes sports fun

May 9, 2008

I once worked with the Joba Chamberlain of journalism, a guy named Hans Tesselaar who would leap to his feet and throw a fist pump for everything from a Southern Cal water polo victory to the fact that the cafeteria was serving his favorite vegetable soup.

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I woke up Wednesday morning wondering if there was any sane person out there not named Tom Renney who believes it is possible for the Rangers to come back from an 0-3 deficit.
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March 19, 2008

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