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...Michel Winter, Taraf's manager and translator, agrees: "They are not backstage musicians. Music is their life." All 13 members of Taraf de Haïdouks grew up in the same small Romanian village, and all come from musician families where grandfather, father and son were raised to play. Saban Bajramovic, 66, a gypsy music legend in Serbia who once played for Josip Broz Tito and India's Jawaharlal Nehru, was imprisoned for desertion from the military and made that experience the inspiration for his life's work. A press statement introducing his latest album observes, in all seriousness...
Lars wasn't the only Middle Georgian returning to Massachusetts. Heat Wave Coach Lou Saban, a legendary motivator who has coached three pro teams, seven college programs and served as New York Yankees president under George Steinbrenner, landed his first pro job in 1960 with the then-Boston Patriots, an expansion team...
...called Saban up (at home, of course) and asked him about starting over again with a new team. Wasn't it all a bit familiar...
...know, I was thinking the same damn thing," Saban said. "This is 1960 all over again, and I'm still enjoying myself like I always enjoy myself...
...player or so was worth cheering, such as Passer George Mira or Pass Rusher Ted Hendricks. But the highlight of the '70s, a bowl-less interlude for the Hurricanes, was the time that the University of Florida literally lay down to let them score. A peripatetic coach named Lou Saban came along then, and before moving on in two years, recruited a monstrous class headed by Quarterback Jim Kelly. He is the current matinee idol of the Buffalo Bills. Saban's successor, Howard Schnellenberger, backed Kelly up with Ohioan Bernie Kosar and Long Islander Testaverde. On the day after...