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...father was in the Royal Irish Fusiliers?Swaffield has led a life of wanted-by-Interpol restlessness in which Hong Kong, the Philippines and (his next destination) Cambodia are all places he calls home. He started out?at age 15?drawing for famous British comics The Dandy and The Beano. Even now, after stints as both a Ralph Lauren designer and a Hong Kong-based corporate artist, he has not forgotten his first love: witness the deliciously twisted (and unpublished) comic strip called Cheap Charlie: the Mental Moon, featuring a hapless backpacker adrift in psycho-tropical Thailand...
Some students of the sport believe so. Says Beano Cook, the clever TV analyst for ESPN: "If Walsh was a general, he would be able to overrun Europe with the army from Sweden." Leonard Koppett, whose observations of the game have graced many publications, including the New York Times, for almost 50 years, puts it another way: "In that narrow field of conceptual football, Walsh is a genius the way Heifetz was a genius with the violin...
...Walsh is unhappy unless he's plotting to beat somebody on Saturday," says Beano Cook. Not really, says Walsh, who sees his role now as a coach of coaches as well as of players. Besides Ring, there are four other former 49er players on Walsh's staff who have little or no coaching experience. Says Ring, speaking of the intellectual challenge Walsh presents to both players and coaches: "You don't have to be a Rhodes scholar, but it helps to be bright." The bright, of course, are easier to teach. "This is a platform to use my teaching...
...Notre Dame game was like the New Hampshire primary," ESPN commentator Beano Cook said. "Howard took the lead in that game and never gave...
Perhaps the most jubilant award winner was Alan Kligerman, who received the Medicine Prize for his invention of the anti-gas potion Beano. He talked enthusiastically of his serious product, accompanied by by low cries of "Bean-o! Bean...