Paying tolls beats flying for Michaels

SPORTS MEDIA, Nov. 21 (UNION-TRIBUNE)

Never has someone been so eager to pay a $4.50 highway toll.

Sometime this morning, as he heads south from his Los Angeles home toward San Diego, Al Michaels will gladly surrender that amount to the attendant at the Catalina View Toll Plaza on the San Joaquin Hills Toll Road.

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Paying tolls beats flying for Michaels:Never has someone been so eager to pay a $4.50 highway toll. Sometime this morning, as he heads south from his Los Angeles home toward San Diego, Al Michaels will gladly surrender that amount to the attendant at the Catalina View Toll Plaza on the San Joaquin Hills Toll Road.

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