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CYBERSPORT : TUESDAY ONLY, PRICES SLASHED AT O.J.'S HOUSE OF REPOSSESSIONS.


Byline: - Tom Hoffarth

At 6 p.m. Tuesday, O.J. Simpson's ``Garage Sale of the Century'' takes place online. Unfortunately, he won't be around to make change for a $20.

Butterfield & Butterfield auction house on Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades.  conducts the live bidding process for Simpson property seized to help settle the $25 million civil judgment won by the families of murder victims Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson Nicole Brown Simpson (May 19, 1959 – June 12, 1994) was the wife of American football player O.J. Simpson. Found murdered at her home in Los Angeles, California, along with her friend Ronald Goldman, her death led to one of the most controversial and widely-discussed criminal .

Online and incognito in·cog·ni·to  
adv. & adj.
With one's identity disguised or concealed.

n. pl. in·cog·ni·tos
1. One whose identity is disguised or concealed.

2.
, the auction is accessible through LiveBid.com (http://www.livebid.com) as well as Yahoo! Auctions (http://auctions.yahoo.com). Pre-auction registration, which has already been very active, is required.

Unlike the online process that took place recently for Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball - the highest bid was used as a starting point Noun 1. starting point - earliest limiting point
terminus a quo

commencement, get-go, offset, outset, showtime, starting time, beginning, start, kickoff, first - the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the
 for the real bidding done at a Chicago auction house - this will go along in real time, allowing those who just want to sit and watch do so.

You may have already seen the flashier stuff up for grabs, such as his '68 Heisman trophy Heisman Trophy

Annual award given to the outstanding college gridiron football player in the U.S. The trophy was instituted in 1935 by New York City's Downtown Athletic Club and was officially named the following year for the club's first athletic director, the player-coach
, expected to fetch more than $100,000. But included in the 77 pieces are many other awards given to him through the years.

Such as Lot No. 1049 - two trophies awarded by Life Savers to him in 1973 for being Life Saver of the Year and Life Saver of the Month. According to the auction house information, the latter piece, which at one time had a statuette of a man affixed af·fix  
tr.v. af·fixed, af·fix·ing, af·fix·es
1. To secure to something; attach: affix a label to a package.

2.
 to the top of a silver-plated cup, is now broken.
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Title Annotation:SPORTS
Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Feb 15, 1999
Words:250
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