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Kona's AG Manly Men...
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Wednesday, 05 October 2011 03:00
(Photo - Brazil's Ciro Violin is the prohibitive amateur fave at Kona '11.)
By Lee Gruenfeld
After our profound performance of predictive prowess at the World Championship70.3 in Vegas last month, Ironman.com begged Jerry "The Scot" MacNeil and me to stage an encore for the Ford Ironman World Championship. They also begged us not to actually predict anything this time but just to preview the field. Must've been because of how we completely threw the sports book at Caesar's into a state of utter disarray.
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and Arnold Palmer not showing up for the Masters. Joe slipped a disc earlier this year and then, just as he was getting healed up, broke his collarbone. Ironman has been pushed back for cruise ships: Couldn