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...Carolina, although McChrystal deployed regularly to its forward post inside Iraq. In 2006 his unit succeeded in tracking down and killing Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. McChrystal's record has not been without controversy. After the 2004 death by friendly fire of former NFL player and Army Ranger Pat Tillman in Afghanistan, Pentagon investigators said McChrystal provided information that misleadingly suggested Tillman died at the enemy's hands when recommending him for the Silver Star. But the Army decided that McChrystal had "no reasonable basis" for second-guessing officers who drafted the recommendation...
Thomas compiled a career record of 292-84 in 37 seasons as a head coach, 34 of them at Aplington-Parkersburg, and was one of the most well-known high school football coaches in Iowa. He was honored as the NFL High School Coach of the Year in 2005, and four of his former players are in the NFL: Green Bay's Aaron Kampman, Jacksonville's Brad Meester, Detroit's Jared DeVries and Denver's Casey Wiegmann. Thomas made national headlines last year when he insisted that the high school's football field, named in his honor, be rebuilt...
Several networks, betting that viewers want to give the Great Recession a big, cathartic bear hug, have announced new shows about the little guy struggling and the big guy brought low. On ABC's Hank, a CEO gets downsized; on Fox's Brothers, an NFL star goes broke; and on the same network's Sons of Tucson, a banker goes to jail for corporate crimes. (In Hollywood, they call that wish fulfillment.) The reality-show premises are even starker: "desperate" entrepreneurs plead for financing on ABC's Shark Tank; on Fox's Somebody's Gotta Go, employees of an actual...
...early days with the team. “But the last two years, winning the Ivy title back-to-back is a dream come true.”In his final performance at the helm of the Crimson offense against Yale in The Game, Pizzotti looked like an NFL-caliber quarterback. Up against the nation’s top defense in terms of points allowed, in addition to driving 30 mile-per-hour winds and single-digit temperatures, Pizzotti led Harvard in a convincing 10-0 victory over the Bulldogs.But as decisively as the season ended, the beginning...
...Brent Boyd, a retired offensive guard for the Minnesota Vikings, who receives Social Security disability benefits for head trauma sustained while playing football, but was refused similar recompense from the NFL. Testifying in 2007 at a congressional hearing on NFL retirement benefits, Boyd described the NFL's process as "delay, deny and hope I put a bullet through my head to end the problem." Of the 8,000 living NFL retirees, slightly more than 300 receive disability benefits...