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...champion if ever there was one. Chuck Daly, the Hall of Fame coach who died of pancreatic cancer on May 9 at age 78, was my mentor on and off the court. He was also one of the greatest coaches I've ever played for. He was a respected voice in our locker room and the driving force behind our two NBA championships with the Detroit Pistons. And, let's not forget, the man was a great dresser--a fact that led directly to his nickname: Daddy Rich...
...Chuck was voted one of the 10 greatest coaches in NBA history. He won 638 regular-season games during 13 years in the league and another 75 in his 12 playoff appearances. When the time came to pick a coach for the greatest team ever assembled, our nation turned to Coach Daly. He didn't disappoint, leading the Dream Team to Olympic gold...
...drafted by the Pistons in 1981, but we didn't become the Bad Boys until Coach Daly came on board in 1983. He taught us how to win and gave us the courage to stand tall in the face of adversity. It was never enough to settle for being good; we aspired to be great...
...machine. Sacrifice--in a captain who would trade himself for the sake of his crew. Persistence--in the singer who knew from adolescence that this was what she wanted and would allow no humiliation to deter her. These are, not by accident, the qualities Barack Obama, national life coach, regularly exalts. He commends the public for its patience, which convinces me that he has read the parenting books that instruct us to pre-emptively praise our children for the qualities we want them to develop. Any real recovery will require an "extraordinary sense of responsibility," he says, which just means...
Murphy sets up the comedy by giving this big idea a humble setting: the down-and-out glee club of William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. The school's once champion show choir has fallen on hard times, overshadowed by the competitive-cheerleading squad (whose coach is played with Pattonesque swagger by Jane Lynch). Restless Spanish teacher Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) volunteers to bring back the chorus of misfits, like Charlie Brown nursing the most pathetic Christmas tree...