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...role models in sports today. Recently retired NFL star Barry Sanders proved it's possible to dominate and not humiliate. Duke's Mike Krzyzewski proves it's possible to coach winning players who leave school without scandal and with diplomas. Bernie Williams proves it's possible to take a pitcher deep without showing...
...joining the police force, he helped lead efforts to add more black officers to the ranks. Then, two decades later, he helped the push to unionize the department. In the 1990s, his wife and family say he became increasingly critical of the sheriff, Pat Jarvis, a retired Atlanta Braves pitcher, who eventually pleaded guilty to accepting kickbacks in a deal that sent him to jail for 15 months...
...matter where one happens to be, omnipresent signs show it is a special day. For instance, I spent my intercession skiing. At 11:30 a.m., I entered a mid-mountain lodge for hot chocolate. Two portly men shared a pitcher of beer next to me. Alcohol, altitude and Alta Mountain do not mix very well. On Super Bowl Sunday, however, the tenets of safe skiing take a holiday and male pride prevails...
...know what I'm talking about. The intensity could not be matched in a thousand Harvard-Yale contests. The finesse rivals even the deftest touch of a squash racquet, and the mental toughness tops that of the most unshakeable pitcher...
...says the rest of the league can't compete? Even the Colorado Rockies, who finished second-to-last in the NL West last season, were able to go out this winter and make Mike Hampton the richest pitcher in the game. And, for that matter, before the results of the A-Rod sweepstakes were announced, who would have seriously considered Texas--which plays not in Dallas, but in Arlington--a big market...