Word: heel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Immediately following the doubles final, the singles title was to be decided. And although the battle lines were drawn for that final matchup, the familial duel would have to wait. Due to a hematoba in his heel, Tom was forced to default and thus James was handed the singles trophy in a walkover...
...Ravens (+5) over JETS: O'Donnell will crack under Parcells' heel. Dolphins (+2) over BILLS: Don't the Bills stink this year? Patriots (pick) over VIKINGS: Beat me again, Norse bastards. PANTHERS (-3) over Raiders: Remembering the wildcard. BENGALS (pick) over Chargers: Slim loves a loser. Rams (+3) over FALCONS: Just can't bet with Dan Reeves. Bucs (-4.5) over COLTS: Not this loser. 49ERS (-6.5) over Cowboys: Put the 'Boys to bed. BRONCOS (-9) over Seahawks: Last chance to cover, Elway. OILERS (+2) over Jags: Oilers are sending my kids to college. BEARS (+3) over Redskins: On a roll...
...then there are the maggots. In 1994 a nurse at the Fairfield Health Care Center in Fairfield, Calif., found about 40 maggots in a bedsore on the left heel of an 87-year-old man. State inspectors recommended a $24,000 fine, but the nursing home appealed, saying the wriggling larvae didn't constitute evidence of poor care. Besides, the nursing home argued, maggots are good for eating away dead tissue inside a wound. The state hearing officer agreed with the nursing home and threw out the fine...
...begat Dean Smith, who begat not just Jordan and scores of NBA players but also such notable coaches as Billy Cunningham, Larry Brown, George Karl, Roy Williams and Eddie Fogler. Almost all his former charges remain intensely loyal to him. Jordan, in fact, still wears his blue Tar Heel shorts under his Chicago Bull shorts. "He's a father figure to a lot of players and a lot of people," Jordan said last week...
Cunningham, a basketball Hall of Famer who played on Smith's first Tar Heel team, says, "The most overused cliche in sports might be 'We're a family,' but at North Carolina, the team truly is a family. Coach Smith treats the last guy on the bench the same way he treats the best player on the team, and he is as concerned about their education as he is about winning. He takes as much pride in the doctors and lawyers he coached as he does in the All-Stars...