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...than CBS Director Tony Verna, the man who will choreograph the coverage of this week's Super Bowl. An 18-year veteran of TV sports coverage, he has been drilling his squad of 100 technicians and production people with the single-minded drive of an electronic Vince Lombardi. He is studying game films and continually revising his play book, a 36-page treatment of the deployment and minute-by-minute moves of men and equipment. In the TV equivalent of a football tactic known as "flooding the secondary," he will scatter 15 cameras, 40 microphones and 84 TV monitors...
...have nothing against giving athletes shorter hours and higher pay, but wrestlers these days just don't seem to have any interest in the glory of the sport anymore. They're just not giving 100 per cent. They've forgotten Vince Lombardi's old adage: "Winners never quit, and quitters never...
Unfortunately, Sanasardo's protege choreographer and lead male dancer, Manuel Alum, was absent in these concerts; Jacques Patarozzi was an unsteady alternative in the "Footnotes" piece, but warmed up to a more constant and precise performance in "The Myth" and "Pain." Joan Lombardi, a firm, blue-skirted figure, added noteworthy strength and form to the selections. Yet even after all the refined play and posing, the bells chime and "Footnotes" blurs into gossip behind a water-colored fence. It's a Tom Sawyer delight...
...fancy Dan, Devine has kept the Packers in the fundamentalist Lombardi mold: solid defense and methodical, ball-control offense. A former quarterback at the University of Minnesota who married the school's homecoming queen, he began his head-coaching career at Arizona State in 1955; three years later he moved to Missouri, where he led the Tigers to twelve straight winning seasons and six bowl-game appearances. Fastidious to a fault, Devine, 46, has a penchant for washing his whistle in alcohol after every practice. "If you're looking for a word for me," he says...
Violence and Sadism. Scott's thesis would be scorned by such hard-nosed coaches as Leo Durocher ("Nice guys finish last") or the late Vince Lombardi ("Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing"). Though Scott is primarily interested in reforming college athletics, the ramification of his ideas nevertheless carries through all sports, from the professional game right down to the Little League. When Dave Meggyesy quit his $35,000 job as linebacker for the St. Louis Cardinals last season, he holed up in Scott's apartment for four months to write Out of Their...