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...approach to the line of scrimmage also fools defenders. Chargers fullback Lorenzo Neal dubs it "slow to, fast through." When Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers gives Tomlinson the ball, he tries to run to the line at about three-quarters speed. "You can't be going full speed," Tomlinson says. "Some guys run too fast and can't stop and make a move. Or they run into their own lineman, and the linemen hate that." The stroll lulls the defense to sleep. Once Tomlinson spots a crease, those thighs power him past unsuspecting tacklers...
...student at Emmitt Smith's running-back camp. "You knew he had that 'it,'" remembers Smith. LT even started sleeping with a football and didn't stop until his junior year of college at Texas Christian University, where he led the nation in rushing in consecutive years. "The ball would lie in his arms like a girlfriend," says Tomlinson's younger brother LaVar, 24. "And I can never remember that ball being on the floor." He who fails to fumble in slumber won't cough it up in consciousness. In the crucial area within 20 yds. of the opponent...
...chiefs also complain that the surge seems to involve only guys with guns. There is a widespread feeling that the Pentagon has shouldered the entire load in Iraq while U.S. government agencies better suited for reorganizing political and economic systems have dropped the ball. Other agencies, most notably the State, Justice and Energy departments, lag in sending experts and advisers to help the Iraqis pull themselves together. Uniformed officers say they can pull off a surge, but it won't make any difference if there isn't a larger, government-wide strategy to mend the broken country...
...never stopped. With the ball in Warne's hand you felt that Australia were always in with a chance of winning. Even when you didn't, he still did. In a match against England two months ago that looked headed for a boring draw (on the morning of the last day, bookmakers had the odds of an Australia victory at around 50-1), Warne engineered one of the most remarkable wins ever, attacking batsman after batsman until one after another they raised the white flag and surrendered...
...Manhattan first celebrated the new year's arrival in Times Square in 1907 - with a 78,000-pound iron and wood ball - and except for two years during World War II, has done so every year since, though the ornament has lost a lot of weight, svelting down to a 150-lb. aluminum ball in 1955. In the old days the thing dropped through the efforts of six burly workmen and a guy with a stopwatch. Now it's all done by computer...