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...feeling the buzz. I'd never heard of Johnny, but my patients' had - and people think that sports stars automatically know who the best doctors are. (They are, of course, quite wrong.) It's a tremendous practice-builder to have a few celebs on your roster. It can also be, if you don't watch out, a tremendous ego-inflator. Not that a surgeon's legendary ego needs growth - it's usually huge enough already. Sometimes that's a good thing: Much as Johnny's star confidence elevated the mood of the office, the surgeon's big ego can often...
...fell apart quickly. Inside the organization, arrogance, then chaos, was the rule, while a roster of castoffs, clodhoppers and kids tried to imitate major leaguers. Season-ticket holders dropped from a high of 34,000 to less than 14,000. The NFL's Broncos, who had won two Super Bowls under quarterback Elway--a former New York Yankees farmhand--would take center stage in Denver. Scalpers hawked $5 tickets for seats behind the dugouts at Coors Field...
...last year’s co-captain Julie Chu ’07 were selected to the U.S. Women’s Select Team on Tuesday and will travel to Sweden for the five-day tournament, which takes place Nov. 7-11. Both are listed as defensemen on the roster. Cahow’s national team experience dates back to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, where she helped the squad take home a bronze medal. She is a preseason All-ECAC selection for the 2007-2008 season after making both the All-ECAC and All-Ivy first teams...
...Here at the World Conker Championships, held annually in the village of Ashton in southeast England, the British game grows up, drawing an international roster of children and their nostalgic parents. This year, nearly five hundred competitors from as far away as Jamaica and the Ukraine are competing for bragging rights, a trophy and a garish crown adorned with chestnuts. The event feels like a cross between Halloween and a college football game. Five thousand spectators don fancy costumes (think nuns, pirates, horses and Dumbledore) and, from 9:30 in the morning, guzzle beer and munch on sausages...
...news for the Lions’ defense, which is allowing almost 260 rushing yards per outing. Norries Wilson has instilled a disciplined approach on the Upper West Side—Columbia is the least-penalized team in the league by a decent margin—but still lacks the roster to crack the Ivy’s top half...