Having grown up in the Buffalo area, you'd think I was raised a big sports fan, but because my folks leaned intellectual, unless "Wide World of Sports" was on, sports were generally off.

Nicholas Beahan, of Westfield, experienced the crème de la crème of sporting events.

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