Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every holiday binger faces that morning-after moment when the bathroom scale measures what the feast has wrought. And AOL's new bottom line is a company swollen with millions of new customers, rivers of new revenue and essentially unlimited potential but also a tricky new business model that may prove difficult to take from the white board to the real world. The Netscape buyout has redrawn the online map, but a certain software concern based in Redmond, Wash., still looms menacingly on the horizon. The epic confrontation between Netscape and Microsoft is over, but the epic confrontation between...
...young and charismatic team chaplain, the Rev. Keith Johnson, and being available as a father figure, Green is promoting faith and self-discipline among his wayward flock. Result: a season thus far without incident. Carter, whose drug problems got him waived from the Eagles, has become a team role model and a born-again Christian. Even Green, who was charged with sexual harassment in 1995 (the charges were later dismissed), says he has taken to cleaner living and spending more time in prayer...
...that task Green enjoys several advantages. Black players, especially, trust him and feel he understands them. He can correct them without making them feel any disrespect--a skill many white coaches haven't mastered. Team chaplain Johnson says Green is creating a new model for coaching. "Guys like Randy Moss represent the future of pro ball," says Johnson. "Moss is talented, grew up without much male leadership, has a history of social deviance and was merely a commodity in college. How do we handle guys like him? Coach Green has tried to provide an environment where they can succeed." Some...
THIS YEAR'S MODEL...
When the majority of young black males aspire to be like Mike, such that Sprewell and All-Paternity Team MVP Shawn Kemp-also a prime example of the maleducated millionaire-are elevated to the position of role model, the fate of the NBA should not and cannot generate the same ennui as that of its sports brethren...