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...have a page long enough to list all their problems," says former New York Giants quarterback Phil Simms, who had the great pleasure of analyzing the Tennessee-Detroit game on Thanksgiving for CBS. "Their free-agent signings have been flawed, their drafts have been flawed, the organizational philosophy is flawed. As a coach said to me, 'Wow, they're small, they're not fast, and they're old.' It's unbelievable...
...laughable levels. "Head coaches may be hearing all this talk about how 'we're all in this together,'" says Jeff Van Gundy, former coach of the New York Knicks and Houston Rockets and now an ABC/ESPN analyst. "In reality, not really. Unless your name is [nine-time title winner] Phil Jackson, [four-time title winner] Gregg Popovich, [21-year Utah Jazz coach] Jerry Sloan or ['08 champ] Doc Rivers, if you lose three games in a row, you're instantly on the hot seat. I really do believe that...
Apple's true believers are being put to the test. Late Tuesday the company announced that Steve Jobs will not be giving the keynote address at the annual Macworld Conference and Expo. Apple also said that Phil Schiller, its top marketing guy, will be giving the keynote this coming year, and that this will be the last Macworld in which Apple will participate...
Steve Dowling, an Apple spokesman, deflected any questions about Jobs' health. When asked if Jobs canceled because of illness, Dowling said, "Phil is giving the keynote because this is Apple's last year in the show, and it doesn't make sense for us to make a major investment in a trade show we will no longer be attending." Asked again about Jobs' health, Dowling gave a similar answer, never using the word Jobs or anything related to his condition...
Included among that batch of coaches are some pretty good ones—Penn’s Al Bagnoli sports a .677 winning percentage and six league crowns while leading the Quakers, and Brown’s Phil Estes is at .615 with a pair of Ivy titles. Buddy Teevens put Dartmouth football at the top of the Ivies in the early 1990s, though his second go-around in Hanover has not been as successful...