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RESIGNED. GEORGE O'LEARY, 55, head coach at the University of Notre Dame, just five days after taking the job; in Notre Dame, Ind. Hired to revive the university's storied team, which has failed to finish in the Top 10 nationally since 1993, O'Leary quit after he was found to have falsified his resume. Among other things, his biography touted him as a letter-winning football player at the University of New Hampshire, where, in fact, he never played a game...
...wipes his brow, then begins cataloging the aches and pains that are chipping away at his game. His eyes have gotten worse, he says. His elbows and shoulders hurt, and his belly makes it harder to stretch across the table. Everything has gotten worse since he quit smoking in 1997, he says. Some people in the Philippines say age has caught up with Reyes and robbed him of his magic touch. Reyes seems to agree. He thinks he'll play five more years, then retire, give lessons, make appearances or open his own hall. He knows other players are gaining...
...only ex-terrorist is a dead terrorist. The only friendly Muslim nation is one that doesn't raise a significant clamor for America's demise. We cannot do anything to change this. We are in a war that the U.S. can neither win nor lose. And we cannot quit. Welcome to the 21st century. LARRY MCGUIRE Wayzata, Minn...
...skier had stalled. "I came back, but I wasn't improving," he says. "I don't know if it was due to being unhappy with the team environment or a lack of maturity. It was probably a number of things." Whatever the cause, Schlopy took extreme action. He quit the team and joined the World Pro Ski Tour...
...Decker quit the Harvard Band after one semester her freshman year because she found its on field antics distasteful, but she is still a percussion queen. “I started drumming my freshman year of high school,” says Decker, who went on to lead her drumline to first in the state. She switched from marching band standards to playing hand drums for Sister Sledge, the soulful, 70s version of Destiny’s Child on the band’s 1998 album “African Eyes.” “They came over...