At a time in sports when we’re bombarded with bums and lacerated with louses, we need all the good guys we can get. Which makes it an especially haunting time to lose Skip Prosser , the Wake Forest basketball coach, who died Thursday of a heart attack after spending much of his 56 years sharing that big, beautiful heart with the basketball world.
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“Mad Men,” the splendid new Thursday night series on AMC about ad execs set in the early ’60s, is a reminder of just how wonderful smart television can still be.
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Remember that old skit on “Saturday Night Live,” the “All-Steroid Olympics,” where the weightlifter’s arms eventually come off? Apparently, there is a sequel in production. Something called the Tour de France.