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USC football throwback: The controversy, injury and tragedy of Mike McKeever

USC football’s All-American twins Marlin and Mike McKeever were born in 1940, on New Year’s Day, in Wyoming, in the middle of a blizzard.

Marlin came first. Mike followed 10 minutes later.

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Their parents were expecting a girl. They’d even picked out a name: Mary Ann.

“Imagine getting all set for a baby girl named Mary Ann and suddenly these two show up,” Groucho Marx quipped on his “You Bet Your Life” television show in 1961 when the twins made an appearance.