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Michael Arace Commentary: Ohioan Chooses Life In The Cold Lane of Iditarod

  • April 25, 2011
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Ohio can be a strange incubator. Ulysses S. Grant, the son of a tanner, won the Civil War and became president. John Glenn, the son of a plumber, was the first American to orbit the Earth. Bob Knight, the son of a railroad man, grew up to throw a chair on television. And so forth.In this spirit of twisted fate, we present Matt Failor, son of a high-school administrator.Failor is a sled-dog driver.Read more here:http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2011/04/25/ohioan-chooses-life-in-the-cold-lane-of-iditarod.html?sid=101

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