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Duke University coach Mike Krzyzewski (pronounced "Sha-shef-skee"), who over the last three decades has won a sick 78% of his games and three national championships, fancies himself a business guru. Why not? Coach K - his more familiar, and spellable, moniker - is a highly sought speaker on the corporate lecture circuit. So before his first day of practice as the new coach of the U.S. national team, this CEO in charge of a daunting turnaround project to restore America's basketball and sporting pride felt a pang that belies his outward cool, but is familiar to even the best...
...imposes tight control over pliant 18-year-olds, meld the egos of millionaired NBA megastars? After all, several top college coaches have fired airballs in the pros, guys like Lon Kruger of Illinois, fired by the Atlanta Hawks, and Miami's Leonard Hamilton, a washout with the Washington Wizards. Krzyzewski's favorite wink-wink reply: "I'm a millionaire...
...early results are sterling - the team has bought into Krzyzewski's selfless, defense-first philosophy, evidenced by blowouts of China and Puerto Rico and a gritty 90-86 win over Brazil in exhibition games. The plucky ex-Army point guard from Chicago has mixed in motivational ploys - a speech by a soldier blinded in Iraq moved many players to tears - but won't overdo the rah-rah stuff. "We haven't gone on a canoe trip," quips K when asked how he has united the team. "We'll bond on the court...
...several schools nationwide, presidents continue not to be the highest-paid employee. Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski earned $853,099 in fiscal year 2003—compared to then-Duke President Nannerl O. Keohane’s take-home...
...tell your Windows Media Player to bring up an artist or album, or call out commands like "Shuffle" or "Next track." Recognition stops shy of identifying individual songs, but it is freakily accurate when it comes to phone-book entries. The acid test: we entered Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski (pronounced She-shef-ski) into the phone book and asked the Pocket PC to bring it up. Out of several hundred entries, the software found Coach K instantly, no sweat. --By Wilson Rothman