Word: scouting
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...first method applied by a scrutinizing talent scout is telling any questionable player who asks whether your team needs anyone else, "I've already got my five." Other tactful responses include, "Some of my friends are downstairs dressing," or, "Sorry, I'm waiting...
McLaughlin scoured the country as a talent scout for the Fighting Irish, and this year he has made one junket through Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Washington D.C. to speak to Harvard applicants. Notre Dame, unlike Harvard, provided athletic scholarships, but McLaughlin says "I think I was prepared well for Harvard at Notre Dame because they were very selective about their student athletes. The first thing we have to know is who is a viable candidate. The kids who do qualify are interested because of the academics. Any coach or school would consider it an honor to have...
...that acquaintances could find to tell reporters about him were that he loves to sing but has no voice, and that he delights in telling jokes but usually laughs so hard at them that he botches the punch lines. Otherwise, Miller sounds like a business version of a Boy Scout: frugal, industrious, a sharp manager, something of a social activist-and a man whose likely moves as the nation's supreme money manager are impossible to predict from his career...
Maxwell is the new face on the floor, but the Celtics also have a new man on the bench: former Harvard head basketball coach Tom "Satch" Sanders. As an assistant to Heinsohn and the team's chief scout, Sanders will have a major impact on the Celtics' future...
...Spielberg the film is a culmination of fantasies he has been nurturing since childhood. Always fascinated by UFOs, he still regrets missing a scout troop outing at which his friends claimed to have seen a blood-red orb looming in space. Firelight, a 2½-hr. amateur effort he made at 16, dealt with an invasion of monsters from another planet...