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...OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM: The rah-rah moniker for the war never caught on much with the U.S. newscasts?but Fox and MSNBC flaunt...
When he does, people tend to listen. He played that role even in high school. Harry (the Horse) Geldien, Cheney's football coach, remembers the young man as a locker-room leader, though not the rah-rah, attention-grabbing type. "They'd be in there dressing for the game, and there was usually a lot of chattering and noise," Geldien recalls. "But when Dick started to speak, the other kids would stop and listen. They respected...
Willingham, 48, is the opposite of the rah-rah type Notre Dame thought it was looking for, one reason he wasn't hired in the first place. He's an intense, Bible Belt Southerner who worked his way through a series of coaching positions to the top job at Stanford, where football is only one of many extracurricular student activities. He's also the first black head coach in Notre Dame history, a mantle he wears somewhat warily. "I'm not one of those who likes to be in the spotlight," he says, "although I do recognize that...
...done games in the old Boston Garden where [the Celtics] played the Lakers. It’s just rabid there. The NCAA championships, because of the beauty associated with college sports and the fact that you’re dealing with amateurs in a real rah-rah kind of environment—there’s an awful lot to enjoy there. Each one of those sports brings a uniqueness that I thoroughly enjoy and I’m very humbled that I get to work them...
This week the overachieving middle brother gets his first shot at a showy leading role in Behind Enemy Lines, a rah-rah war movie co-starring Gene Hackman. Wilson again appears with Hackman in The Royal Tenenbaums, opening Dec. 14. The whip-smart comedy about a family of geniuses, the third collaboration between Anderson and Wilson, co-stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller and brother Luke as Hackman's dysfunctional brood...