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• NOW YOU KNOW THE REST OF THE STORY
• Turns out tiny Mercer's takedown of mighty Duke was even better than it looked.
• Never mind all the other advantages the Blue Devils brought to the game that the Bears couldn't hope to match: NBA-caliber players, a Hall of Fame coach, a bigger budget than two dozen BCS football programs, a pedigree and blue blood (whatever that's good for), not to mention a 27-minute commute from their campus in Durham to the loading dock at the PNC Arena in Raleigh, N.C.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Saturday, March 22, the 81st day of 2014. There are 284 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On March 22, 1934, the first Masters Tournament opened under the title "Augusta National Invitation Tournament," which was won three days later by Horton Smith.
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• On this date:
• In 1312, Pope Clement V issued a papal bull ordering dissolution of the Order of the Knights Templar.
• In 1638, religious dissident Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for defying Puritan orthodoxy.
• In 1765, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act of 1765 to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax. (The Stamp Act was repealed a year later.)
• In 1820, U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel with Commodore James Barron near Washington, D.C.
• In 1894, hockey's first Stanley Cup championship game was played; home team Montreal defeated Ottawa, 3-1.
• In 1933, during Prohibition, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal.
• In 1943, the Khatyn Massacre took place during World War II as German forces killed 149 residents of the village of Khatyn, Belarus, half of them children.
• In 1958, movie producer Mike Todd, the husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor, and three other people were killed in the crash of Todd's private plane near Grants, (Continued on page 37)
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