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By JAMES J. KILPATRICK
They put blinkers on a horse, I am reliably informed, to prevent the horse from looking sideways. In prose composition, blinkers perform an opposite function: They prevent a reader from reading straight ahead.
Many remarkable blinkers come from the sports pages. This item came from Denver last month: “Quarterback John Elway said he got the news that his knee was in such bad shape that he shouldn’t play this season while listening to the radio.” And he shouldn’t play while watching TV either.
Another dispatch from Denver had to do with the Broncos’ practice in May. Shannon Sharpe watched from the sidelines. This was because “he underwent off-season knee surgery on both ankles.”
Thinking of ankles: In Las Vegas last November, a team from Mexico .defeated the University of Nevada, partly because of an injury to the Rebels’ forward Patrick Savoy. It
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