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...crisp, fall Sunday afternoon. The weekend's chores are done and Monday morning is still hours away. You settle into the sofa, click the remote, and sit back to enjoy an NFL match on one of the major networks. But instead of three hours of gridiron bliss, you get a second-rate 1950s musical. While for American football fans this scenario is, these days, just a Heidi Bowl nightmare, for bullfighting aficionados across Spain it's suddenly a bad dream coming true. This summer, for the first time in its 51-year history, the state-run Spanish Television Corporation...
...need to be butch! Butcher and more intense." That's darned good advice for an NFL lineman, a carjacker ... or an action-movie star forced to start filming while awaiting pivotal script pages. It was Paul Greengrass's direction for Matt Damon when they commenced shooting this summer's globe-galloping thriller The Bourne Ultimatum without a finished screenplay. "I didn't know where I had come from. I didn't know where I was going--which are things you really need to know as an actor," says Damon, who reprises his role as conflicted assassin Jason Bourne...
...NFL's Genius...
...didn't become a pro head coach until he was 47, but Hall of Famer Bill Walsh made the most of his 10-season NFL career. He transformed the San Francisco 49ers from a long-suffering franchise with a 2-14 record into the winningest team of the '80s, with three Super Bowls in seven years. Before Walsh, conventional wisdom held that NFL coaches needed a loud voice and an iron fist. Walsh was just as likely to appeal to his players' intellect. With his silver hair and professorial mien, he was nicknamed "the Genius." His main invention...
Bonds, 43, will probably be around for another season or two. But Michael Vick, star quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons, may have thrown his last NFL pass. A federal grand jury has indicted him for owning a property that held dog fights in which the animals fought to the death (some dogs, the feds allege, were put to death by drowning, gunshot or electrocution). The league is pursuing its own inquiry into the case...