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What is there not to like about his life right now? He is playing NHL hockey in his home town, where he can be close to his large family of three brothers and four his large family of three brothers and four sisters. He never had to suffer throught the minor leagues. He enjoys working with coach Gerry Cheevers, who just wants Jim to keep on doing what he has always done. Craig anticipates playing 45 to 50 per cent of the season's 80 games, which "is all I want to play. That's enough, Forty games...
...Richard hurl his whistling fastball into the dead of a summer night (actually, it was often difficult to see) knows that he provided one of the great thrills in sports anywhere, only to be obscured nationally by the small amount of attention the Astros received. It is a sobering throught that an athlete so talented can be stricken by a stroke at such an early age, and the fact that his earned run average for the season will wind up under 2.00 provides little consolation for baseball purists and casual fans...
...teams expect more and more that they will have a shot at the golden ring on the national sports merry-go-round, the pressures and the frustration mount. It is a vicious, self-perpetuating cycle that must be dealt with now, before too many more athletes drift throught the Ivy League--and through Harvard--retaining a bitter aftertaste for college life. Such disillusion should not be passively endured, especially not in the Ivy League, where you are told to expect Utopia...
Putting aside Washington's growth, a handful of top-notch reporters like David Halberstam, author of The Powers That Be and Howard Bray, have burrowed throught back issues and the newsroom controversies in search of the paper's "secret." Bray's book is competent and comprehensive, but he seems satisfied to describe how the Post grew, rather than why it grew. He breezes over pivotal factors, ("As World War II sparked the rapid growth of Washington, the Post began making a little money.") in favor of boardroom trivia. The result, unfortunately, reads like a Harvard Business School Case Study with...
...sulph'rous and throught-executing fires...