AFTER THE SEASON ENDED, Jackson wrote that Kobe was “un-coachable” and revealed that he’d urged Lakers management to trade him. But not only did Jackson coach Kobe again but they won two more championships together. I ask how he got over being called “un-coachable.” “I didn’t,” Kobe says. “Wait, you didn’t get over it, or […]
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Unlike Winston, Prescott, as a fourth-round pick out of Mississippi State, did not enter the NFL with high expectations. He opened training camp as the third quarterback behind Tony Romo and Kellen Moore. But with his fast start — he has thrown for 3,139 yards and 20 touchdowns against only four interceptions — Prescott put […]
Mark Sanchez sat next to McKnight’s high school coach, and both men needed a tissue from the ushers walking around with boxes. The whole scene, the lack of difference between people who played as John Curtis Patriots or as New York Jets, really made tangible the powerful bonds formed in a locker room, and the […]
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Obviously, there were moments in the six losses when Manning failed to lead the offense to a key first down or score, but overall it’s been his defenses’ inability to hold fourth-quarter leads that has been the single biggest reason his teams have been one-and-done so often. In his only Super Bowl-winning year in 2006, […]
It was one of the great moments in baseball history: July 9, 2002. The American League All-Stars and the National League All-Stars were tied 7-7 in the bottom of the 11th. Vicente Padilla had just held the AL scoreless in the top of the inning. There was a problem, however: Padilla and Freddy Garcia of […]