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Columnist lives on in words

Wife of Pulitzer winner Murray is on a mission to maintain her husband's legacy

Updated: August 18, 2010, 7:18 PM ET
By Shelley Smith | ESPNLosAngeles.com

She's a pint-sized dynamo with boundless energy and infectious laughter, whose perfect sized-2 physique belies her brute strength -- inner and outer.

"Look, biceps," she says, flexing one day during lunch, before laughing, "Who knew?"

Linda McCoy-Murray buried her husband, Pulitzer Prize-winning LA Times columnist Jim Murray, 12 years ago today with the heaviest of hearts amid a ceremony usually reserved for heads of state.

"Al Davis was there with Marcus Allen ...

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