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Superstars create whole new era; greatest era in sports? It's today.(The Dallas Morning News)

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 20020617
Author:Blackistone, Kevin B.

DALLAS _ Jack Dempsey apparently never believed the hype. Not even about him. Long after he ruled the heavyweight boxing division in the Roaring Twenties, the glorified champ was quoted by the writer Roger Kahn as suggesting his greatness was less real than imagined.

"I had great writers covering me," Dempsey allowed to Kahn. "Ring Lardner. Grantland Rice. Heywood Broun. I was lucky they came along the same time I did."

Dempsey's time was a period that became celebrated as the Golden Age of Sports, segregated though it was. It was so stamped because of the unprecedented ...

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