legend
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From failing to impress at Arsenal as a 16-year-old to doubting his own ability, how has the Uruguayan made himself a Real Madrid legend?
From BBC
She married and divorced actor Don Mitchell and later married baseball legend Curt Flood, who took a stand against baseball’s reserve clause and died in 1997.
From Los Angeles Times
Another surprise of the night: Vogue legend Anna Wintour saw the light of day, at least for a moment.
You only have to look at Alabama football to see how hard survival can be in the wake of a legend.
His Clark Kent-esque transformation, from unimposing nice guy — “the nicest guy in the entire world,” Casparius said — to smirking menace whenever the day needs saving is the stuff of comic book legends.
From Los Angeles Times
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