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...line about a coach being only as good as his players is simplistic, but contains more than a kernel of truth. All he can do is help them to perform at the outer edges of their ability. To this end, loads of money, whiz-bang training facilities and umpteen assistants usually help, but boiled down, all sports are pretty simple. In testing times, the wise coach steers his team back to first principles. In Bill's speech of 20 years ago, old stagers like Bennett, Jones and Buchanan might just hear an echo of their younger selves...
Henry: Why in the name of the Gods would anyone pay $150 to see a Mannheim Steamroller concert? That’s right, 150 clams, enough money to save umpteen families in Pakistan from freezing this winter, instead exchanged for the right to sit at a table and be serenaded by the godfathers of New Age Christmas music. There’s just something about the price of concerts that really yanks my goat. Granted, the number of college students paying said amount to be Steamrolled this holiday season will probably be zero, but I think the real question here...
...executives who need to recharge their umpteen mobile gadgets can start leaving all but one power cord at home. The iGo Juice ($119) can recharge most major-brand laptops by plugging into U.S. wall outlets (and foreign ones with a standard adapter), airplane armrests or car cigarette-lighter sockets. And for an extra $19, iGo's less than imaginatively named Peripheral Powering System can simultaneously charge most handheld devices and mobile phones. The Juice comes with a sleek vinyl techno-Dopp kit, so you can tote your slimmer, trimmer recharger in style. Warning: although this company's products can adapt...
Britain’s sporting mediocrity would not be terribly interesting were it not for the population’s unshakable belief that it was still a major player in world athletics. Umpteen experts opined that there was a good possibility of Manchester getting the Olympics in 2012 on the back of the Commonwealth Games. Framingham stands a better chance...
Preparation for the transformation has already begun: The students about to embark on this particular variety of the Spring Break trip have logged umpteen hours at the gym as of late, desperately trying to firm up the winter’s extra padding in one week. (This also explains the group of guys dropping for push-ups every half-hour on St. Patty’s Day.) They have frequented the tanning salons in an attempt to hide their pasty-white Cambridge complexions. They have endured the torment of the waxing chair, modeled their trunks and bikinis in front...