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voices.washingtonpost.com - 11/27/2008
Remembering 21: Wise Looks Back
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Many of you have asked what it was like for reporters and editors covering the tragedy that befell Sean Taylor, who died one year ago this morning. Mike Wise took a deep breath and remembered those wrenching days. A year ago, my plane landed at Dulles Airport after I'd covered a game in Tampa. Local ABC sportscaster Greg Tolen, sitting in the same row of the plane, had received a text message about Sean Taylor...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

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ST ‘Becomes the James Dean of the NFL’
Mr. Irrelevant — Sean Taylor passed a year ago today, and his awesome legend only grows. The Washington Post has you covered, especially with its Redskins Insider blog, which posts a poignant tribute from Mike Wise: “I remember writing of the funeral how sad it was that we knew him better in death than in life. I still feel that way today. He lives bigger in memoriam than he did when he was alive. In another decade, Sean Taylor becomes the James Dean or Jim Morrison of the NFL - a great, young talent who was taken much too ...

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