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...question has been asked for so many years now that it's almost become a passé punch line of the off-season. And for some, the annual Favre guessing game has become so routine - Favre himself responded to retirement questions late Sunday by saying, "I know people are rolling their eyes or will roll their eyes ... In a situation like this, I really don't want to make a decision right now" - that they have written off Favre as a prima donna who has teased and toyed with the league's press and fans to a point where...
...Wallace plays for the Beantown women’s club team in Boston. “This season we’ve done a really great job of bringing up our level of play,” Wallace says. “Usually when you come back from the off-season you have to reteach...
...grew up in Washington, D.C., the son of a contractor father and a homemaker mother. After graduating from Syracuse University, Bing played nine seasons for the Detroit Pistons. During that time, he was the rare All-Star talent who understood that there was life after basketball. In the off-season, he worked as a bank teller and manager, grasping for his next career. In 1980 he formed Bing Steel and rode the wave of automotive-industry interest in cultivating a base of black and female suppliers. He was, essentially, a bridge between Detroit's growing black middle class...
...circles, your off-season workout regiment is renowned. What kind of things do you do? I'm motivated every summer. My goal is to be the best player in the business. I have a personal chef that prepares all my meals. I work out, and drink my Myoplex shake [made by EAS, a sports nutrition company]. This summer, I got together with a bunch of receivers [in Minneapolis, Fitzgerald's hometown] to go out there and work. We invited teachers out there, [Hall of Fame receiver] Cris Carter and Jerry Rice, to teach us the nuances...
...some, however, the President's visit would better serve Vineyarders if timed during the off-season. "August is already crazy here," notes a full-time resident and business owner. "Why can't he come in February, when the island's economy really needs the help...