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...Knight critic when he taught at Indiana University, predicts that more players will come forward to report boorish behavior by coaches. "College coaches are going to be watched more closely," he says. The risk of long-term health damage from concussions, he adds, will likely spur more players to turn on coaches who put their health at risk...
...Initially we didn’t respond very well,” Amaker said. “They definitely are quick; they trap and get up in you and try to turn you over and speed...
...after Leblanc’s goal, the game took a turn for the more physical. With seven minutes to play in the second, five penalties were called in a span of 30 seconds—the most significant to Quinnipiac senior Eric Lampe, who got a 10-minute major after he threw a punch at a referee...
This gap in the English language shouldn't come as a surprise; the debate over what to name the first decade of this century has been going on since the middle decades of the last one. The 1900s never got a name beyond vague constructions like the turn of the century. One popular term--the aughts--has proved too archaic (and tricky to spell) to be broadly revived. Wordsmiths tried new coinages starting early: in 1963 a New Yorker writer suggested "Twenty oh-oh" for the far-off year 2000, a "nervous name for what is sure...
...people view the city and people of Aulnay." An image boost is a near given if Chicago Blues: A Living History wins its category (the town is up against Elliot Ramblin' Jack, the Mick Fleetwood Blues Band, John Hammond and Duke Robillard). But a Grammy probably won't turn the CD into a money-maker - even though it's been nominated for two other American blues awards, and has already won another pair in the U.S. and Europe, sales have yet to top 10,000 worldwide. (Read: "Why Paris Is Burning...