Word: man-to-man
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...emotional, not technical football that most interests Jensen. He prefers the simple one-on-one, man-to-man combat that happens when the opponents use a noseguard rather than an even-numbered line. Says Jensen, "I never have to think about who I block...
Bernal, the longtime, successful coach of the Harvard men's swimming squad, has brought the Crimson some much-needed respect. He's revamped the Crimson's game, installing a fastbreaking offense and a man-to-man defense, which he compares to the fast-paced play of the Boston Celtics...
...everything rests on senior Captain Adam Button, who sparks the offense and plays fierce man-to-man defense. "I think he's in better shape now than he was last year--at the end of the season," Bernal says...
...better-known players, Ewing and 6-ft. 9-in. Wayman Tisdale of Oklahoma, at first spent a lot of time on the bench because they were not adroit enough at defense to please Knight, whose Indiana teams have won six Big Ten titles and two N.C.A.A. championships with smothering man-to-man play. Indeed, the coach's favorite player was Jordan's less glamorous North Carolina Teammate Sam Perkins, whose hustling style prompted Knight to say, "If I could coach Perkins all the time, I might stay in this game forever...
John Kennedy figured he had made a strike by persuading Nikita Khrushchev to meet with him in Vienna. But man-to-man he could not even get Khrushchev to admit that killing 70 million people with nuclear weapons in ten minutes was a bad idea. "I never met anybody like that," J.F.K. marveled. There was something else where the heart was supposed...