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...think Bill Belichick, head coach of the perfect New England Patriots, the hoodie-wrapped Houdini of the sidelines, dresses down on game days? You should check out his sartorial selections during the week. Before a practice in late November, Belichick is wearing jeans and a ratty gray shirt; it looks as if a dog--and then a hyena--has feasted on his collar...
...Patriots paradox to Bellichick. At the beginning of New England's 2001-04 run of three Super Bowl victories, he was Nice Bill, a tireless if disheveled football chess master who had finally escaped the capacious shadow of Bill Parcells, the Super Bowl-winning coach for whom he had toiled as a longtime assistant. Claiming three of four Super Bowls is a truly mind-boggling feat, given that the NFL's salary-cap structure is designed to spread the wealth and prevent dominance. It takes some kind of football genius to escape the league's parity policy...
...memorable upset of Michigan on Dec. 1, blew an 18-point lead in the second half of its final tune-up before kicking off its Ivy League slate at home versus Dartmouth on Saturday. “It’s a tough, crushing loss,” coach Tommy Amaker said. The Crimson took a 33-24 lead into halftime, thanks in part to sophomore forward Pat Magnarelli’s 11 points and six rebounds in the first 20 minutes, and expanded its cushion to 18 with 14:11 remaining in regulation. But the Anteaters, aided...
...with poll numbers that hover around 10%. Though fourth or fifth place is not necessarily a death knell for any of them, they could all certainly use the bump. As Huckabee likes to say on the trail, "There are three tickets out of Iowa - first class, business class, and coach...
...Sacred Heart had just ten offensive rebounds and only seven second-chance points. The Crimson out-paced its host in both categories, grabbing 11 offensive rebounds and scoring the same amount of second-chance points. Harris led the team with eight rebounds, with Lin adding six. “Coach [Tommy] Amaker has been really stressing rebounding,” Harris said. “We had done extra rebounding drills in practice this week.” Following the defeat, the players now get a break for the Holidays so they can celebrate with their families. The next practice...