Word: smith
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...have been easier in my 20s or 30s?" Lucy Lee Grimes Evans lists "mother of four" as her occupation even while decrying, as a member of her local Democratic town committee, how "women are still woefully underrepresented" in state and national politics. But for lots of us, like Susan Smith Ellenberg, our children are all grown up and "we've had to get used to being less a part of their lives...
...when Dean Smith, 66, announced last week that he was stepping down from the job he has held since 1961, there were tributes from his players and his rivals and even President Clinton. "We all respect and admire you so much," the President told him by phone...
Perhaps the best testimony, though, to the extraordinary coach Smith was his own comportment last March after his Tar Heels defeated a pesky and game Fairfield University team, 82-74, in the first round of the NCAA tournament--a win that temporarily tied Smith with Kentucky's Adolph Rupp for most victories in a career. Rather than celebrate the record, Smith sought out each and every member of the opposition to congratulate him. He asked leading scorer Greg Francis, "Do you always play like that?" and told coach Paul Cormier, "I just want you to know we played very well...
...then, in a way, he was. As Tom Butters, the athletic director of archrival Duke, said last week, "Coach Smith made college basketball better. Excellence begets excellence." The lineage of basketball is even more specific. James Naismith, literally the father of the game, begat Phog Allen, the Kansas coach, who begat Dean Smith, who begat not just Jordan and scores of NBA players but also such notable coaches as Billy Cunningham, Larry Brown, George Karl, Roy Williams and Eddie Fogler. Almost all his former charges remain intensely loyal to him. Jordan, in fact, still wears his blue Tar Heel shorts...
...bookstore to buy a map, but comically, he accomplishes little more than entertaining us with the plop-thud of his wooden dialogue: "'What's your name?' Mick asked. She hesitated before saying, 'Judy. Judy Tanaka.' 'Very exotic,' he said. 'Not really. In Japan, Tanaka is the equivalent of Smith. But we're not in Japan, so it's still exotic...