http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6622I420100703

Oregon (Reuters) - Olympic bronze medalist Walter Dix edged out Tyson Gay in the former world champion's hotly-anticipated return to the 200 meters at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting on Saturday.

7/9/2010 11:06:16 AM

How unfortunate

7/9/2010 11:07:09 AM

what an O face

7/9/2010 11:07:54 AM

headlines just write themselves sometimes

7/9/2010 11:08:42 AM

Is there any way to write a headline for a Gay-Dix race that doesn't sound questionable?

7/9/2010 11:08:51 AM

LOL

7/9/2010 11:09:52 AM

^^

7/9/2010 11:12:06 AM

one must wonder why they don't bother changing their names

7/9/2010 11:36:14 AM

ha. win.

7/9/2010 11:42:12 AM

Quote :

"Is there any way to write a headline for a Gay-Dix race that doesn't sound questionable?"

Dix bypasses Gay Unmolested?

7/9/2010 11:47:35 AM

I think short and sweet is the way to go to avoid confusion: Dix beats Gay

7/9/2010 11:49:03 AM

^
You don't have subject-verb agreement.

7/9/2010 11:53:31 AM

^
indeed. whereas the original headline deals with that problem nicely

7/9/2010 1:26:31 PM

Quote :

"On the eve of the UGA/South Carolina game 41 years ago, I was hanging out with three of my fraternity brothers (the Hound, Tex, and Bake), drinking a few cold PBRs at the old Callaway Gardens Apartment on the Atlanta Highway. We were discussing the upcoming game against the Gamecocks and lamenting the fact that we were going in with several key players out with injuries, including our starting DE, Billy Payne and his roommate, MLB, Happy Dicks. About 10:00, another fraternity brother, Lewis, came in after he got off work. Our buddy was inactive at the time because he had gotten married over the summer to his high school sweetheart, Nancy. In addition to taking a full load at the university, he was working two jobs to help pay for (as he called it) "this expensive habit". A talented young man, he was writing two columns daily - one in the morning for the Athens Banner Herald and one in the afternoon for the Athens Daily News. Lewis walked in, went straight to the refrigerator, got a beer, plopped down in a chair, pushed his glasses back up his nose and announced, "Gentlemen, with any luck at all, tomorrow morning you'll witness journalistic history. I have submitted my column and if it gets by my editor - and there's a good chance of that happening, since he "took drunk" earlier this evening - you'll enjoy the greatest headline in the history of sports journalism." He refused to tell us what it was, and to be honest with you, we all forgot about it. As Lewis went home to his lovely, young bride, the four of us went back over to the fraternity house to get a head start on the weekend. The next morning, as usual, I went straight for the Sports Section. As I pulled it out, I could do nothing but smile, because our buddy had pulled it off. To this day, Vince Dooley calls it his most memorable column ever - all because of the headline, which read: DOGS TO PLAY COCKS WITH DICKS OUT There's no doubt about it, it was "the greatest headline in the history of sports journalism"."

7/9/2010 3:29:23 PM

BUMP

7/12/2010 10:08:54 AM

I, too, get unnecessarily pissed when someone makes a duplicate thread

7/12/2010 11:36:37 AM

yeah man i'm raging over here. think the roids kicked in

7/12/2010 12:35:31 PM