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...complain about it," says More. "I would say, 'Hey, that's what they're going to do to you in game situations.'" O'Neal's team won the state championship his senior year, and he went on to a collegiate career at Louisiana State University before leaving for the pros after his junior year...
...sometimes think, could make it on the tour if only he got serious. That's sort of what Newport believed, and his chronicle of a year devoted to the task explains why the fine green line--the boundary between the worst of the touring pros and the best club champions--is as wide as the Pacific. Newport may be a very good golfer, but he's an even better writer. From a distressing little story about Michael Jordan to some superb explorations of the golfer's soul, there's a revelation or a delight on every page...
...goofs (lyricist Dorothy Fields' name is misspelled in the opening credits; one character reads a letter, and the same text she is "reading" is visible on the other side) and in the cast's gung-ho amateurism. It's like Shakespeare done by the Fame kids. Even such old pros as Nathan Lane and Timothy Spall are made to perform their face-contorting comedy so close to the camera that mugging becomes assault...
...companies felt they could no longer afford to exclude a significant part of the labor force. And despite the thoroughly modern nature of the proposal, its fate came down to an old-fashioned cost-benefit analysis: Industry insiders reportedly weighed the damage potential of the proposal, and decided the pros outweighed any cons they might encounter. They may have been thinking back to the Southern Baptists' noisy but ultimately ineffectual boycott of Disney after that company announced similar domestic partner benefits. Disney, after all, is still alive and kicking - and making billions...
...Bucking the prevailing trend of what's derisively called "gorilla baseball" in the college game and "the NL Central" in the pros--relying on juiced-up batters drilling juiced-up balls for double-digit run totals--Walsh's Crimson played baseball so throwback that watching it, you felt like it should have been in black-and-white...