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...Madden took a position as a color commentator for CBS, immediately finding success with his blend of sharp technical insight and muddled diction. Among the classic phrases attributed to him: "He was standing in the hole waiting for something to develop...and WHAP!, he got developed." "Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon." He also coined the phrase "doink...
...behavior and grades continued to deteriorate. He began smoking large quantities of marijuana. He was briefly suspended for bringing a knife to school. In January 2003, his parents took him to see a psychologist, who recommended that they enroll him in a wilderness program and then place him in Mount Bachelor Academy...
...star linebacker at Harvard, Bersin took up horseback riding and scuba diving in his later years due to injured knees from football...
...Teachers can't believe it. We Are worried about the future. Alan Bersin is a dictator who never took the opinion of the classroom teacher." - Barbara Scott, elementary school teacher, upon the announcement that Bersin would be state education secretary, (San Diego Union-Tribune, April...
...bring out their ladders, climb onto your deck, guns in hand, and it's all over in seven to eight minutes." Describing the passage through pirate-infested waters, he adds, "Every few minutes there's a false alarm, and the stress levels are stratospheric. The 37 hours it took to transit the critical 10- to 12-mile stretch was the longest time of my life." (See pictures of Somali pirates...