Word: emmitsburg
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Callahan, 36, has been covering athletes since 1967, when he was offered a job on the sports staff of the Baltimore Evening Sun. A graduate of Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Md., he had no previous experience as a sportswriter, but he became so proficient that by 1971 he was writing a sports column for the Cincinnati Enquirer. After seven years there, he switched to the Washington Star, then joined TIME last summer. He likes writing about sports precisely because it doesn't deal with the monumental: "It isn't nuclear physics. When...