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When I was growing up in the early and mid 1980's in suburban Washington, DC, me and many of my childhood friends would be watching Sesame Street. Some of the skits the adult characters as well as the muppets did are timeless gems as well as the many songs. I learned a lot from watching the show each day which always had something different. My favorite muppet characters were Ernie, Bert, Big Bird, and Kermit the Frog, who I knew from the Muppet Show. I also learned about how to cope with different feelings. This show is a timeless piece of Children's TV history which will always be around for many years to come.

"This Week in Pro Football" was the forerunner for the modern day weekly NFL recap shows that used humor to describe the week's action right up to and after the first week of the playoffs. I wasn't born yet when this series first aired, but after watching it in reruns, I got a chance to see what professional football was like in the late 60's through the mid 70's around the time before and after the 1970 AFL/NFL merger and some of the comical quips used in the show are timeless classics. This was before the "NFL Sunday Ticket", before the 24-hour cable sports networks and before the modern era of expansion, multi-million dollar signing bonuses and all of the teams having colored facemasks as well as modern day free agency. "This Week In Pro Football" will always be a timeless piece in the history of professional football.

The Maryland Men's Basketball Program has gone through a lot of change in my lifetime, which me and my family personally remember. I had a cousin who attended the University of Maryland at the time Bias was there in the mid 1980's, and his unexpected death affected not only the students, fans, alumni, and the athletic department, but it also affected the drug legislature in profound ways. As for Lenny, he was one of the greatest players to ever put on a Maryland uniform and he meant so much to many people. Just the mere mention of his name stirs up many emotions among many Terrapin Fans. I was thrilled when the Terps won the national title in '02, which validated the Maryland Men's Basketball Program as one of the top programs in the country and after what many Terp fans had to go through to get to that point, it was well worth it going through probation to the final four and the national championship. I'll always remember what former head coach Charles "Lefty" Driesell said during the time when Lenny was battling Michael Jordan for headlines in the ACC "Jordan may be good, but I have to be Biased".