- Jerry Krause, Bulls general manager, talking about why it was hard to get upset with the Jazz, while in Salt Lake City for the NBA Finals: "You're in a part of the country that's so peaceful you only get mad if you don't catch a trout."- Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar...
but I had to go through that. I learned so much, gained so much independence, and was there for myself. It helped me grow up a little bit, because we were so attached at the hip. I think that in order for us both to grow, she needed to spread her wings and do...
They bring more aggression, hunger, and defensive intensity, which in turn makes it crucial for the Game 1 winner to maintain their focus. Jefferson’s colleague at the Worldwide Leader, Kendrick Perkins, came to his defense. “Perk” didn’t care about the context here and was willing to...
At times during the regular season, few thought an up-and-down, notoriously thin Denver Nuggets team would have a chance to go to the Western Conference finals. Yet, here they are. For all the hand-wringing over basketball's gradual evolution into a soccer-style weak-link sport, the team...
finals. During my last dive in the finals, I enjoyed for the last time the quietness underwater and then swam to the side of the pool. The crowd cheered, and I knew I'd won-two gold medals. AIDS forced me to stop diving; I had to give up diving professionally after the Olympics....
I learned three important things in college — to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. ~Agnes de Mille,Dance to the Piper, 1951 Finals. The library has never seemed so frantic, panicked. ...
(Bonus points for *creativity*) Unfortunately, Paris' school wasn't as amused. After discovering what her periodic table code words really meant, they threatened to take away her senior year glory. Paris was given an in-school suspension, banned from participating in her senior walk, ...