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Time for Oscar De La Hoya and Brett Favre to say goodbye

By Bill Dwyre

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It is a natural. A joint news conference. Two superstars of yesterday saying goodbye.

Or, more to the point, two guys saying goodbye who really need to say goodbye.

Oscar De La Hoya, a boxing great with a wonderful business career ahead, could stand up and say, ‘I got hit too much.’

And Brett Favre, pro football star with a wonderful career ahead in anything he wants to do, from TV commercials to running a farm to sports commentating, could stand nearby and nod agreement.

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Then Favre could say, ‘I can’t throw anymore.’

And De La Hoya could nod knowingly.

It’s time, guys. Do it separately or do it together. But do it.

-- Bill Dwyre

Photo (left): Oscar De La Hoya. Credit: Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press

Photo (right): Brett Favre. Credit: Tim Farrell / The Star-Ledger via US Presswire

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Bill Dwyre

Bill Dwyre was a three-times-weekly sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times from 2006-15. Before that, he was sports editor of the paper for 25 years. Dwyre was named national editor of the year by the National Press Foundation in 1985 for the paper’s coverage of the ’84 Olympics and winner of the Red Smith Award in 1996 by the Associated Press Sports Editors for sustained excellence in sports journalism. He was sports editor of the Milwaukee Journal from 1973 to 1981, when he joined The Times. Dwyre was named National Headliner Award winner in 1985, sportswriter of the year in Wisconsin in 1980 and sportswriter of the year in California in 2009.

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