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Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

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Bill Bradley
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 28
Basketball Player
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Former U.S. Senator
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Senior Advisor
Writer
Crystal City
Missouri
William Warren Bradley
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