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...balls in the pros. Krzyzewski's favorite wink-wink reply: "I'm a millionaire too." The early results look good; the team has bought into Krzyzewski's selfless, defense-first philosophy, evidenced in blowouts of China and Puerto Rico and a gritty 90-86 win over Brazil in warm-up games. The ex-Army point guard from Chicago has mixed in motivational ploys--a speech by a soldier blinded in Iraq moved many players to tears-- while being careful not to overdo the rah-rah stuff. "We haven't gone on a canoe trip," quips K. "We'll bond...
...were adding up, and in the 22nd minute they proved fatal. A free kick from the right wing found its way to an unmarked Alberto Gilardino, and he did not miss with the header. The U.S. has had a glaring weakness in restarts after fouls - it was evident in warm-up games, and the problem hadn't eased any here. But before Italy had a chance to set up its bolt-the-door defense for the night, the Americans were level. Italy's Cristian Zaccardo knocked Bobby Convey's cross into...
...unofficial blogger liaison. Clearly, the Warner campaign has great hopes for leveraging what convention-goers call "the netroots." Yet to judge by Warner's actual speech, the netroots are just another constituency, a Democratic special-interest group to be placated by a campaign promise or two. Aside from a warm-up that referenced the night's festivities, Warner delivered his time-tested stump speech to the crowd, its paeans to the need for education and national security indistinguishable from what he might say to the Milwaukee teacher's association or the Charleston VFW. This lack of special treatment-or absence...
...It’ll be a nice little pre-commencement warm-up,” he said...
Before the rally, Obama and Patrick took questions from reporters at a small press conference. When one reporter asked Obama how his endorsement would help Patrick, Obama replied that he is simply “a good warm-up act” for the gubernatorial candidate, and that the reason that over 2,000 campaign supporters were expected at the rally was “because of the excitement about Deval.” Patrick added later that “you know your campaign is on fire when your warm-up act is Barack Obama...