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...after 23 years in the business--a career that included covering the Olympics along with professional baseball and football--Penner shocked the sports world by revealing in a 2007 column that after "extensive therapy," he was preparing to begin a new life as Christine Daniels. For reasons that aren't clear, it didn't work out. Penner wrote as Christine Daniels for only a few months before reverting to his original byline. His death is being investigated as a suicide. Penner's editor described him as "capable of reporting on any number of topics with great wit and style...
...many incarnations: Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever, Vinnie Barbarino in Welcome Back, Kotter and Danny Zuko in Grease. Today, there are message boards for self-described Guidos and Guidettes to chatter (www.njguido.com). "It's a way to be a part of popular culture for kids who aren't invited to the party," Tricarico says. "It is defiant. It's identity politics," he explains. "It's a cultural movement, but it's about consumption, not ethnicity...
...football is still a respected institution. It isn't - especially when it chooses its champion via the opaque and convoluted Bowl Championship Series. That's why other prestigious universities that have Division I programs, like Stanford and Northwestern, no longer lose sleep over the fact that their teams aren't in the trophy hunt. Win or lose, their devotees fill the stadiums each Saturday because they enjoy a premium college football game. But they don't suffer existential meltdowns if the team fails to reach the Meineke Car Care Bowl...
Academics will write their books and have their say. But they aren't going to affect the way Mike Sorrentino feels. Says "The Situation": "If hating is your occupation, I probably got a full time job for you." And while many say that Jersey Shore is a horror show, for one cast member named Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, it may be the beginning of a fairytale. As she says in the first episode, "I wanna marry a guido. My ultimate dream is to move to Jersey, find a nice, juiced, tan guy and live my life...
Susan Docherty is on the front lines in terms of rebuilding the company's relationship with consumers, which has been a disaster. "In large parts of this country, their cars just aren't relevant," says a former GM executive. Vehicles like the new Chevrolet Camaro show that GM is capable of building good, attractive vehicles, says a senior executive at a rival automaker, but "it's all the other stuff that gets...