Word: cuts
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...1970s, Brian Clough was one of the best-known figures in Britain. A talented soccer player whose career was cut short by injury, he went into management, leading not one but two unfashionable clubs to the English championship and then winning the European Cup two years in a row. He was a clever, cocky, working-class hero with an opinion on everything from Margaret Thatcher (against) to striking miners (for). Brilliant, needy, self-destructive - he was an alcoholic and had a liver transplant before he died in 2004 - he combined humor, bombast, friendships and rivalries in a long and very...
...would have to be completely honest, revealing things I wouldn't even tell my wife. I nodded as if I had that kind of secret inner turmoil. Then he said I should think of a turning point in my life. I offered the day I got my mullet cut off. He paused. "Did you ever almost die?" he asked. It turns out your expectations get raised after you've been hanging out with Mötley Crüe. "Have you ever had a moment where you thought about giving it all up?" When I didn't answer for a while...
...just three minutes into the second half, the Crimson had its lead. Rogers picked up the ball on the left and cut into the middle before playing it through to Akpan in the middle of the box. Fourteen yards out with his back to goal, Akpan turned his defender and fired a quick shot with his left foot that beat Grandstrand. Upon scoring, Akpan ran to his bench to share the moment with his teammates...
Harvard had a chance to cut the deficit in half early in the second quarter, after having moved into the red zone at the end of the first on the strength of a 33-yard pass from Winters to Lorditch and solid running by junior tailback Gino Gordon. But the Crimson was stifled after Winters was sacked on the Lafayette 12, and Harvard had to settle for a field goal...