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Just as important, most of the foreign imports "are complete players, not specialists," notes Hall of Fame center Bill Walton, now an analyst for ESPN. The Europeans, in particular, are typically taught the basics by iron-willed coaches who have zero tolerance for showboating or big egos. The players learn to handle zone defenses, which, unlike man-to-man, require every player to hit the outside shot. And pressure doesn't faze them...
...show. TV programs in which she appeared consistently drew 14 share points, well above the norm for music shows. Indonesians snapped up copies of illegally recorded VCDs of Inul's old East Java performances?making her perhaps the first musician to owe much of her fame to piracy...
...veteran rappers like Snoop Dogg, it just seems like music has become a means to an end rather than art for art’s sake. Musicians are preoccupied with staying in the spotlight rather than with writing music. We’ve granted them a measure of fame they don’t deserve. What should have been 15 minutes of popularity has turned into almost a decade of painfully saccharine cliches...
Chair of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Tom Hollister told the early-morning crowd that Boston’s claim to fame should not be its rocky soil, one-way streets, bad drivers, cod fish, or high cost of living...
...Ballard in 1958, the song was picked up by Chubby Checker in 1959 and transformed into a rock-and-roll sensation. Other versions of the song became hits for acts such as the Isley Brothers and the Beatles. Ballard was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...