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When Greenberg presented the idea, group leader Isiah Taylor, 50, rejected it. He thought the song was too Caribbean for the American charts. He was probably right. The original version was a soca (soulful calypso), a horn-heavy, up-tempo form that is played at Caribbean carnivals across the U.S. every summer but has never really caught on. When Baha Men finally recorded Dogs, they explored beats more familiar to American audiences--throwing in some junkanoo (Bahamian festival music) percussion to give it their signature flair. The result is the catchy rendition you've heard so often: urban, with...
...When Greenberg presented the idea, group leader Isiah Taylor, 50, rejected it. He thought the song was too Caribbean for the American charts. He was probably right. The original version was a soca (soulful calypso), a horn-heavy, uptempo form that is played at Caribbean carnivals across the U.S. every summer but has never really caught on. When Baha Men finally recorded "Dogs," they explored beats more familiar to American audiences - throwing in some junkanoo (Bahamian festival music) percussion to give it their signature flair. The result is the catchy rendition you've heard so often: urban, with an echo...
Compare that to Knight's psychological torture chamber. No wonder Indiana has stumbled so often in the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament. No wonder great players--Larry Bird, Isiah Thomas, George McGinnis--don't last in Bloomington. Why would anyone even go there? Wooden inspired confidence, which he considered essential to achieving peak performance. He taught us that the journey to the top of the pyramid was the result of a lifetime of preparation. While Wooden fostered hope, Knight represents the death of hope, the stifling control freak. Look at his coaching style: "Get the ball, and look over here...
...Isiah Jackson '66 and Ben Jackson...
...Harris is anything but patient with the drug-addicted women who each year give birth to some 500,000 drug-exposed children in the U.S., many of them brain-damaged and HIV-infected. As Isiah's birth mother "popped out babies every year," Harris says, "I got angrier and angrier." Harris adopted the last four of the woman's eight children. But she also "called the D.A. and the police to see if I could make a citizen's arrest of the mother for endangering her kids. I wrote the politicians, but they don't care. The social workers were...