If there is one thing that unites the modern-day sports fan, it is the belief that modern-day coaches and managers aren’t tough enough on modern-day athletes. Fans just love when gruff old guys with paunches or even gruff middle-aged guys with six-packs — but preferably all former hard-nosed players themselves — put the shoe to…
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Pressure, some genius coach or manager once said, comes from within. So brilliant was this proclamation, that every other coach and manager alive picked up on it, unimaginative athletes followed and a cliché was born. Clearly, none of the geniuses had the kind of day I had Sunday. This is pressure, my friends. Pressure is…
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I almost didn’t write about Derrick Rose tonight. I don’t have to, after all. No editor is asking me to do it. No one is paying me to do it. I’d rather not do it. And here’s why. I don’t know Derrick Rose. What I do know, I like. I had to chase the 20-year-old…
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Excuse me if I drift off occasionally. I [po[a Ok K Sorry. You go away for seven weeks and the first day back is exhausting. Even if the first day back only lasts for about two hours.  And I don’t even know if “back” is the right word. But I am going to start writing…
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Yes, I am still browsing through the same issue of Sports Illustrated.  Sorry, but it has to wait until my People Magazine is completely consumed first and that can easily take a good 10, 12 minutes. So I’m reading and I laugh — that sarcastic, self-righteous laugh — because I see a story about a…
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