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...Chris Rock, who hired her as a writer for his HBO show. She got her performing break when fellow writer (and star, as a nonsense-spewing rapper, of the movie Pootie Tang) Lance Crouther agreed to take her to a work party for HBO's Inside the NFL, even though he wasn't supposed to take a guest. Sykes, who was told to lie low, spent the entire time loudly mocking show host Bob Costas' inability to admit he doesn't know something. To Bob Costas. He was so amused that he gave her an on-air job on Inside...
Thus, the 2-5 ’Skins can officially fade out of the public consciousness and people can stop pretending that they are in some way still relevant, whether it is symbolically, politically or in the NFL. This is a good thing, I’m pretty sure...
...waste. I didn’t even need to do this to show why November will be good for sports. I could have simply pointed to late-season college football, the return of the NBA, Major League Baseball off-season dealings, the meat of the NFL season or even the nationally ranked Harvard football team’s perfect record—the only one remaining in all of Division I-AA. And, you may also reasonably claim, Jim Bunning is in reality a very nice, upstanding, intelligent individual. And that I, on the other hand, am a hack...
...Title IX generation become soccer moms over the next five to 10 years, the WUSA and other women's sports leagues will have ever greater chances of success. "America will support one," Carter says of a women's league. But don't start comparing it to the NFL: "It will be pretty low on the food chain, at least for a very long time," he notes. For the 11-year-old girl who emailed Foudy after the WUSA folded, offering to hold a bake sale to save the WUSA, any league would be just fine...
...Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter in her latest book, Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End. Kanter pulls case studies from business, sports and politics, including extended inside looks at Gillette, Continental Airlines and the British Broadcasting Corporation. Her conclusion is that winning organizations--from NFL franchises to FORTUNE 500 companies--share three core characteristics: they instill accountability at all levels, cultivate collaboration and teamwork and encourage initiative and innovation. With illustrative examples, Kanter lays out how to overcome attitude problems like passivity, inefficacy, finger pointing and panic in order to become a winner...