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That last season, Walker's pep talks were more determined than ever. For this was to be his year, his season of redemption, the conclusion of a career of empty promise. When Walker entered Junior High School, he was 5'9", 180 pounds, fast and tough. He was touted as a future college star, even a professional. But Walker never grew, and other athletes, though not as tough, became bigger and faster, and Walker began to get injured when he tried to run over defenders. He was still the best fullback in a tough spot, but the talk...
First-year drummers must attend, at their own expense, a weeklong, 18-hr.-a-day training course in Nashville that is equal parts pregame pep talk and deadly serious sales talk. The recruits, mostly clean-cut kids, memorize their spiel ("Hi, Miz Jones, I'm Joe College, and I'm out here in your neighborhood calling on some of the church people...
...illegal and unsavory practice of luring someone into committing a crime and then prosecuting him for it. The question for the Supreme Court last week was whether the following situation qualified: Under cover Narcotics Agent Joe Shapiro suspected that Richard Russell of Whidbey Island, Wash., was manufacturing methamphetamine pep pills (or speed), so Shapiro offered to do business with him. As part of the deal, Shapiro supplied a hard-to-get chemical ingredient. After Russell produced the speed and sold him some, Shapiro eventually made the arrest. Was that entrapment or a necessary and lawful use of deceit...
...locker room as he does at meetings of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Each season, his players are provided with a copy of his Pyramid of Success, a personal credo that builds on such virtues as sincerity, integrity, resourcefulness and fight. Wooden has been known to begin a halftime pep talk with a discourse on the decline of the Roman Empire...
Whipped into a near frenzy at a giant pre-game pep rally, the Notre Dame fans were crying for blood. Instead, the Bruins, nicknamed the "Slaughterhouse Five," cleanly and expertly dissected the unranked Fighting Irish. Led by Center Bill Walton, a 6-ft. 11-in. behemoth under the boards, U.C.L.A. shook off an early case of the jitters and coasted to an 82-63 victory. Afterward, the game ball was carried off for enshrinement in the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. The pressure off, Wooden and his charges returned to their quest for an even more remarkable record...