"This league is becoming a passing league and the guys will have to be a lot quicker, " Lofton, the Saints linebacker, said.

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Our sessions would be interrupted now and then by calls from Al Davis (an early boss), James Lofton (whom Walsh coached at Stanford) and other big football names.

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Rivera recalled facing dominant Cleveland teams of the 1990s, when the Indians had one of baseball's most feared lineups with Jim Thome, Manny Ramirez, Kenny Lofton, Omar Vizquel and Albert Belle.

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But if the names Bob Gibson, Leon Wagner, Joe Rudi, Greg Maddux, Reggie Smith, Willie Stargell, Mike Schmidt, Kenny Lofton and lately Albert Pujols mean anything to you... well, you get the picture.

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