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...Hill, fans have found a player with old-school grace, a guy who is organizing a summer camp for kids and calls assistant coaches Sir. Says Pistons guard Joe Dumars, a mentor of Hill's: "It's a league of guys who are out of control. Fringe behavior is being recognized and accepted, sometimes even rewarded. It's probably not a healthy comment that Grant is being recognized for just being a good person, but it's time we get back to that." Pistons coach Don Chaney agrees: "Grant is headed for stardom. You can't talk...
...music. Vanilla Ice had a best-selling pseudo-rap album; New Kids on the Block had gone multiplatinum. Were there any real singers left? Was everyone as fake as Rob and Fab's hair extensions? The answer to these questions was Boyz II Men. Cooleyhighharmony was quality, old-school music, and its success paved the way for a new generation of singing groups, including Shai...
...seasons, Boggs was as much a part of the Boston Red Sox as the fabled Green Monster wall in Fenway Park's left field. Now he had changed to pinstripes (part of the off- season free-agent frenzy in which 91 veteran players shifted teams), and it troubled an old-school ballplayer like Ryan. "It's just a sign of the times," he said. "We grew up expecting a major-league team to protect its nucleus and be pretty much the same from year to year. It's not that way anymore...
...album, co-produced in first-rate fashion by Cherry with her husband Booga Bear and Johnny Dollar, kicks off with the appropriately titled Sassy, an old-school, freestyle rap tune, in which she asserts, "Fellas got to give me the most respect/ 'Cause you know I don't waste my time." Propelled by a jazzy piano riff, she rhymes a duet with the Guru, a raspy male rapper from the group Gang Starr. "If you step to her wrong," he warns, "you're getting played like jazz...
After all, in addition to Walsh (whose Women's Studies affiliation places her squarely within the New Harvard set) and Boone (who is known to frequent Grateful Dead concerts), a good number of old-school professors have adopted methods of study which would have been taboo just 20 years...