At the post-match press conference, Connors, then on the wrong side of 30, was asked repeatedly about his retirement plans. |
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Jimmy Connors is not Howard Hughes, but has spent a good deal longer in seclusion. |
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In 1974, Jimmy Connors, a strutting young braggart who used his racket like a cudgel, bludgeoned his way to the final of Wimbledon. |
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The Connors, though heartbroken at the time, took it on the chin and set about replacing the herd. |
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The 1841 census shows the Connors family squatting at Queuck. |
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It is hard not to think Connors is an insensitive cad for bringing up such a private matter almost 40 years after the fact. |
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But perhaps the truest joy of Fire Season is the evocative language Connors uses to capture the natural world. |
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Only Ted Williams had ever done that before, my old man told me, and one day I want to meet Connors and tell him about it. |
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McEnroe went up to say hello to Connors, and Connors just walked past him. |
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