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...part to the countless media layoffs around the country, MNN has been able to assemble a surprisingly accomplished staff for such a new property, including Peter Dykstra, the former head of CNN's science unit, and bloggers like the New York Times's Jim Motavalli, a transportation expert. That talent has enabled MNN to get a fast start on harder environmental news, even as it does the yeoman's Web work of aggregating content from other sites...
...Australia's long run of success contributed to a good feeling in the nation, coinciding as it did with a commodity-fueled economic boom. Its cricket prowess was helped by an apparently endless seam of talent: brilliant batsmen, fast bowlers and a spin bowler, Shane Warne, who managed to do things with a cricket ball that nobody had imagined for decades. But Warnie is retired from test cricket, his pudgy frame and perpetually highlighted hair now to be found in the TV commentary box. In the first two tests of this southern summer, Australia's aging warhorses and green youngsters...
...voice, her edge and her rawness. When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons. So, no, we didn't have those concerns. We did it because she was a true talent...
Another word would be shocking. Football experts all agree that in today's "any given Sunday" NFL - in which every team seems to have a decent shot to win, and in which a salary-cap structure and a draft that gives the worst teams access to the best young talent in a young man's game, create leaguewide parity - going winless is awfully hard to do. "It's mind-boggling to me," says Troy Aikman, the Fox Sports analyst and Hall of Fame ex-quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, who lived through a nightmarish 1-15 season himself...
...players Millen passed over for wide receivers: Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, a Super Bowl winner; five-time Pro Bowl defensive back Troy Polamalu, also a Super Bowl-winning Steeler; and San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman, a three-time Pro Bowler. "If you can't evaluate talent, if you can't draft talent, nothing else matters," says Aikman. "Your team is built on a house of cards...