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It was around 1:45 Saturday afternoon, or the 93rd minute World Cup time, when a native of the tiny West African nation of Ghana named Asamoah Gyan willed the soccer ball onto his left foot from between two U.S. defenders, then willed it into the back of Tim Howard’s net with a determination even more fierce.
There’s a scene in the classic 1975 movie “Dog Day Afternoon” in which bank robber Sonny Wortzik, played by Al Pacino, tells lover Leon Shermer, played by Chris Sarandon, that he has taken hostages and arranged for safe passage to Algeria.
It was August 1985 when the 15-year-old baseball prodigy with the sweetest baseball swing since Darryl Strawberry (bet you thought I was going to say Ted Williams) barged into the press box at Ricketts Park, home of the Connie Mack World Series in Farmington, N.M., asked if I was the reporter from the local newspaper and, if so, when did I want to interview him?