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...Australians' conduct since 1995 hasn't always been edifying. While no one should expect champion teams to behave like boy scouts, even for the realist there's been too much preciousness and belligerence. Especially under Waugh and Ponting, Australia have been as much a gang as a team, easy to fear and hard to love. All the time Waugh set about breaking opponents mentally, Ponting was an attentive student. They are as responsible as anyone for the expansion of the phony war?the tiresome tactical games played before and between matches. "Players these days talk too much," says Geoff Lawson...
...main reason they lost was that England had the better fast bowlers. The worry for Australia is that even without Simon Jones, they still might. McGrath is a champion. He's also 36. Watching him running in to bowl revives memories of an Australian practice at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the late '90s, when two speedsters at opposite ends of their careers were operating in adjacent nets. Veteran Craig McDermott was bustling in as though he had a lead weight strapped to each thigh; a flowing Brett Lee, meanwhile, might have been mistaken for an Olympic sprinter. Though...
...world has lost an irreplaceable champion of liberty. And an irascible one. He even warned that the postal service was a threat to freedom. I never bought that one. Nor did I agree with his sangfroid about immense budget deficits, which he thought would restrain federal spending, which in turn would promote liberty. He worked tirelessly for school choice for the poor through vouchers--possibly the most controversial work he ever...
Three months ago, no one would have been surprised to see an Ivy League champion crowned at Harvard stadium on a late November evening...
...tendon all season—but that’s nothing compared with his effort two years ago. Berg played nearly half of the 2004 campaign with what essentially amounted to a broken leg, despite being the only sophomore starting for that year’s undefeated Ivy League champion defensive line.“It’s one thing to play, but when you see the extremely high athletic level that he plays, he’s one of the more amazing defensive linemen that I’ve ever been around,” Murphy says.Berg struggles...