Word: willard
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...final estimation, Harvard kept it close the entire way, and led into the final minutes before suddenly refusing to score. With a game this close and even the entire way, and no team having a lead larger than seven, the final push for Holy Cross and Head Coach Ralph Willard may have come from an intangible: the presence of Boston Celtics Head Coach and General Manager Rick Pitino...
...Pitino, taking a break from his current position as Most Hated Man in Boston Sports, took in the game at Lavietes Pavilion decked out in a thousand-dollar suit and shoes to match. On hand as a friend and the former boss of Willard, Pitino may have refrained from giving advice out loud, but by merely sitting there may have boosted the confidence of the Crusader players...
Among the happiest of his controlled skids is Fred Willard as Buck Laughlin, a supremely confident, supremely clueless TV commentator filling time with proctologist jokes, making awful wordplays when the Shih Tzu appears. He's the outsider trying fecklessly to gain a purchase on a closed world. He is also, one suspects, one of Guest's inner voices, an assertion of the reality principle saved from contempt by its self-satirizing edge...
...Among the happiest of his controlled skids is Fred Willard as Buck Laughlin, a supremely confident, supremely clueless TV commentator filling time with proctologist jokes, making awful wordplay when the shih tzu appears. He's the outsider trying fecklessly to gain a purchase on a closed world. He is also, one suspects, one of Guest's inner voices, an assertion of the reality principle saved from contempt by its self-satirizing edge...
...first assignment as a cub reporter 21 years ago was to cover the 100th-birthday festivities of the oldest living person in our community. Scintillating stuff. I've been doing this longer than Willard Scott. So naturally I jumped at the chance to interview another senior citizen breaking longevity records--the economy, which shattered the prosperity mark last week. The expansion is 107 months old and counting. Yet the geezer is feeling remarkably spry. Here's what...