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...giant of cricket, Glenn McGrath does a fair impression of a regular guy. Hanging about in the members' area of the Sydney Cricket Ground on a chilly afternoon last month, the fast bowler might have kept chatting with New South Wales State of Origin rugby league players, who happen to be milling about, too. But his attentions turn to the reporter, whom he knows a little. He agrees to talk outside, looking out over the ground, even though those things on his arms look a lot like goosebumps. Earlier, he'd noticed some of the members playing tennis. He says...
...Since his international debut 12 years ago, McGrath has seldom fit the stereotype of the obsessive sportsman, let alone the boneheaded fast bowler. Raised on a sheep and wheat farm, a straight-A student through school in Narromine, in northwestern New South Wales, McGrath was set to become a carpenter until his talent for propelling a 5.5-ounce lump of cork, string and leather carried him to Sydney and beyond. As a cricketing tourist, he's shown an uncommon appreciation for the peculiar attractions of foreign lands; to his wife, Jane, he's the rock that's stood...
...Ashes against the strongest English side for at least 20 years. The mind games will intensify on June 19, when the two countries contest an early installment of a limited-overs tournament. The main event starts next month at Lord's, venue for the first of five Tests. McGrath needs one wicket to take his tally in Tests to 500, a mark reached by only three other bowlers. If he can manage 21 wickets for the series, he'll pass the West Indian Courtney Walsh as the game's most prolific fast bowler. Though vanity is frowned upon in Australian...
...England's plan, of course, is to write a dark twist into McGrath's next chapter. If their batsmen can find a way to blunt him, they will have taken a huge stride toward ending Australia's run of eight consecutive Ashes victories. Publicly, the England camp has been circumspect about its chances. Mostly it's been lauding Australia, which has lost just seven of its last 40 Tests against its oldest rival - and 17 of its last 100 against all countries. Only in April, the England and Wales Cricket Board set 2009 as the date by which...
...lion (voiced by Ben Stiller), a zebra (Chris Rock), a giraffe (David Schwimmer) and a hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) forsake the friendly confines of Central Park Zoo and end up on you-know-which island off Africa. The plot, by co-directors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath and co-writers Mark Burton and Billy Frolick, asks whether a carnivore, the lion, can keep from eating his friends...