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Gardner has the aw-shucks routine down pat. "I didn't think I could beat him. But I grew up on a farm where you just go forward and get the job done," he said. "Even though I wasn't thinking I was going to win, I was going to work as hard as I could." The only other time the two met, in a 1997 world-championship round, Karelin obliterated him. "When he threw me, my feet almost hit the back of my head. That's not a good thing," he recalled...
...Aw, good on yer," he said. "It's tougher to run it that...
...combined 19-11 with our picks, we're currently resting quite comfortably on our deluxe laurels. And receiving several offers from struggling NFL squads to come in and be The Man. To which we always turn our eyes down modestly, and kick the dirt a little, and say "Aw, shucks, Coach" and get ready to dazzle the readers again. Which brings us to this week, in which we'd just like to remind our loyal readers to play hard, dance with the ones that brung ye, and remember to tip your bartender...
...there you have it. The four-step plan to Becoming a Better Person. Take what you think will be useful, and discard the rest. In the meantime, congratulations, keep on swinging those clubs and fighting the good fight. We're all kind of proud of you, in an aw-shucks, punch you in the shoulder, American sporting event kind...
That night in a booth at The Dancing Crab, a restaurant out Wisconsin Avenue, Nora goes to work on Carl. "Who is Deep Throat?" She is relentless, she tries everything. "Aw, c'mon!" "I won't tell." "Lemme guess - I'll mention a name, and if I count to 10 and you haven't hung up on me, I'll know it's right!" Grin. That, of course, is the sort of trick that Woodward and Bernstein used on reluctant secretaries at CREEP...