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Why these are the 5 best highlights of the London Olympics
posted by Pat Caputo at
10:53 PM
Sunday, August 12, 2012
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- Name: Pat Caputo
- Location: Pontiac, Michigan, United States
Pat Caputo is a sports columnist for The Oakland Press. Caputo covered the Tigers from 1986-98, and Lions from 1998-2002 for The Oakland Press before becoming a columnist. Caputo was raised in Birmingham and played baseball and football at Groves High School. His photograph playing high school sports appeared in The Oakland Press. He has won numerous writing awards, including first place in column writing from the Michigan Associated Press and the Michigan Press Association, and from the Detroit Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has been named among the Top Ten sports columnists in the nation by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE), and has won honors in four of the APSE's six national award categories. He has garnered top national honors for his column writing and sports writing from the Local Media Association. Caputo, who has resided in Oakland County since he was nine years old, currently lives in Lake Orion. Caputo has a radio show weeknights and weekends on 97.1 FM, The Ticket, which is the flagship station for the Tigers, Lions and Red Wings. He also appears regularly on FOX 2 television on "SportsWorks."
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3 Comments:
Pat your a greater writer but the basketball was invented by the ex-Great White North. Those people found out they couldn't jump so they gave the game to America.
Yup and Nope Barry,
It was invented by a Canuk - but while he was teaching in the lower 48
Hard to jump with boots on eh?
What time period are you thinking?
I know search engines says the first game was in 1891 using soccer ball, no dribbling allowed and the score was 1-0 in Mass. The origin or first steps towards basketball started in Ontario started in the late 1870s and 1880s. The 1891 game is so different from what is being played today. The 1880s version might have been different from 1891 game but that where it started.
Hockey, for example, was not invented in Canada, it was imported from Europe. Canada and US both promoted to where the game is today but the game was not invented in North America.
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