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Consider it done

Jerry Dunn has decided to mark his 50th year and the 100th year of the Boston Marathon by running the 26.2-mile course every day for the 25 days preceding the annual event. Then he’ll run the race with everyone else April 15.

OK, you can stop laughing now. See, Dunn has done this sort of thing before. In 1991, the massage therapist from South Dakota ran across the U.S. for charity - and averaged 27 miles per day, six days a week during the 3-1/2-month trip. And in 1993, Dunn broke the world record for most marathons in a year - 104. He had planned to run 93 in ‘93, but kept going when told the record was 101.

“There are a lot of 50-year-old people who think their life is over and they’re stuck with the lot they have,” said Dunn, who averages about 4 hours and 45 minutes per marathon. “I want to show we can do whatever we want to do if we push ourselves.”

Bruno by 10th-round blackout

Why pay $39.95 to watch another Mike Tyson rerun when you can see a world premiere on cable? Tyson fights Englishman Frank Bruno in Las Vegas on pay-per-view Saturday, but the real drama figures to be across the Atlantic.

For the purposes of cable TV in Britain, Terry Dixon will play the role of Bruno and Damien Caesar will be Tyson in a simultaneous blow-by-blow reconstruction of the WBC heavyweight title fight.

Subscribers to “Live TV” won’t be able to see the real thing, but instead will watch Dixon and Caesar - both professional boxers - act out the Bruno-Tyson fight as it happens, with the punches in Las Vegas being relayed to them in London through radio and TV feeds.

And while Tyson is a prohibitive favorite in Las Vegas, he’s an underdog in London; even if Tyson wins, Live TV will provide an alternative, what-might-have-been ending with Bruno retaining his title.

We’ve heard of telegraphing punches, but this is ridiculous.

A future in broadcasting?

Sam Smith of the Chicago Tribune wrote that Utah’s John Stockton had this to say when he was told he had surpassed 13,000 points to go with 11,000 assists:

“Did I do that? It’s like my dad always said: ‘You put a monkey at a typewriter long enough and you’ll eventually come up with something good.”’

Hey, that’s what Billy Packer would say.

But did he inhale?

Mo Ankney, Missouri’s defensive coordinator, was arrested last week for allegedly stealing a $2 pack of cigarettes from a grocery store. The 53-year-old assistant was arrested last Friday near his house on suspicion of misdemeanor stealing, police said.

Ankney, who could not be reached for comment Sunday, has spent the last two seasons at Missouri.

The last word …

“It’s wonderful he can be inducted into Cooperstown while he’s still sharp enough to insult anybody he pleases at the ceremony.”

- Tom Boswell of the Washington Post, on Earl Weaver’s recent selection to the Hall of Fame

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