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...DIED. ELROY ("CRAZYLEGS") HIRSCH, 80, Hall of Fame Los Angeles Rams' receiver who resurrected his career after a stint as a running back with the woeful Chicago Rockets; in Madison, Wisconsin. Hirsch, who gained his nickname from his ungainly running style, suffered three injury-plagued losing seasons with the Rockets. But at Los Angeles, Hirsch became one of American football's first great receivers, catching 10 touchdown passes during the team's 1951 championship season...
Madden recalls Belichick when the Pats guru was a defensive coordinator for Parcells: "He could act like a mad scientist, locking himself in a room, drawing up defenses." That didn't suit Belichick for the p.r. functions of a head coach, and he failed in a stint at Cleveland. He's still ill at ease in press conferences, but he has a lighter side. Quarterback Tom Brady, another no-namer promoted to Super Bowl glory when the Pats took it all in 2002, insists his coach is "very witty, very intelligent." Asked for a few gems of Belichick stand...
Visitors to Italy who limit their trips to a tour of Tuscan villas or a stint in Rome have no idea of what they're missing. Why not leave the mainland behind and take a short flight?or the ferry from Naples?to the rugged, romantic and historically resonant island of Sicily...
...questions that need to be answered, like whether our seaports are safe from oil tankers—which could clearly be used as torpedo missiles—and whether Air France should ever be allowed to enter the country’s airspace. In the recent stint of “high alertness,” I took the personal step of wearing only orange boxer shorts, to remind myself daily where my fear level should...
DIED. GERALD GUTIERREZ, 53, Tony Award--winning theater director; of respiratory failure resulting from the flu; in New York City. Though he periodically left the theater--for a year at Yale Law School (at age 49) and a stint as a chef's apprentice--he always returned to the stage, helming such acclaimed Lincoln Center productions as the 1992 revival of Frank Loesser's musical The Most Happy Fella, a Tony-winning 1996 production of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance and last season's spiffy revival of Dinner at Eight...