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Bob Love: The Bodacious Butterbean, 1972

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May 30, 2022
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[Time to give the great Bob Love his due. This article, published in the April 1972 issue of the magazine Black Sports, comes from none other than Bryant Gumbel, best known for his former gig as host of The Today Show. He continues to do great things on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. But in 1972, Gumbel was fresh out of Bates College and trying h…

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