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09-01-2006, 11:55 AM

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Trivia about Upset

So... I'm watching this Robert Wuhl thing about how myth gets turned into "fact" and he just said that "upset" as in a "sporting upset" actually traces to Man O' War's loss to Upset, and that prior to that it just meant upset as in "emotionally upset." Does anything know if this is true? I'm going to Google...

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