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Note: With Rick Pitino's Louisville team making the Final Four, I thought it would be interesting to look back at three Pitino-related columns from my old website in Boston. This third column was written one month after he resigned, on February 8, 2001, as interim coach Jim O'Brien was improbably turning the team around. Unlike the other two columns, I didn't have to tinker with this one -- it was pretty clean.
You know it's killing him.
He probably wakes up in the morning, slips on a $200 bathrobe and some $150 slippers, brushes his teeth, walks downstairs to the first floor of his mammoth estate, opens his front door, finds his Miami Herald, turns to the sports section ... and just starts muttering to himself. After all, when you jump off a sinking ship, isn't the ship supposed to, you know, sink?
(Hmmmm ... maybe it wasn't the ship.)
Nope. It couldn't have been him. Impossible. It was them. They were selfish. They wanted "more touches." They wouldn't reverse the ball. They weren't ready to make a committment to defense. They didn't listen. And the fans ... all the negativity in that town sucked. Terrible situation. Hopeless cause. Sinking ship. Wasn't his fault.
And yet he can't stop thinking about it. What's going on up there? So he puts aside some time on Wednesday night to watch them play Milwaukee. No way they hang with the Bucks. Can't match up. Too many shooters. Milwaukee killed them when he was there. Terrible matchup. They'll go into the break at 21-28, that 8-game road trip will cripple them and that will be the end of it.
The Jim O'Brien Era? Hah! He taught O'Brien everything. O'Brien was his lackey. Saved him after the disaster in Dayton, saved his friend's rear end, gave him his old job back at Kentucky, even weaseled the highest assistant salary in NBA history for him. It's not O'Brien ... it's the players. They're playing harder so they can stick it to him, because he left. This is payback time. They'll flame out. This team has no heart -- he knows it. That's why he left. He couldn't help but notice how Toronto manhandled them on Monday night. Here comes the slump. First Milwaukee will beat them, then the All-Star Break will kill all their momentum ... and that killer West Coast swing is looming. Let's see if they're talking about The Great Jim O'Brien in three weeks. Contract extension? He'll be lucky to make it through the season.
He goes through the rest of his day. Eighteen holes of golf. Eighty-degree weather. Lunch at the club. His friends tell him how he looks 100 times better since he left Boston. The bags under his eyes are gone, the pasty complexion replaced by a golden tan. He feels his mojo slowly returning. He contemplates a few speaking gigs, where he can earn some quick cash discussing the failure in Boston, how it humbled him, how he learned about life from those spoiled players who wouldn't listen to him. He can tell the Lottery story, how he thought they were getting Duncan and Van Horn. Dammit. Duncan would have changed everything. Just goes to show you ... you never know. A little luck goes a long way. In Boston, he was snakebitten from the start. Yup. That was it.
He returns home in the late-afternoon and spends time with his wife and kids. They head out for an early-dinner and return in time for the opening tip of the Bucks-Celts game. His family scatters; it's just him and Direct TV.
And he watches ...
And he watches...
And it's a different team.
Walker and Pierce, Walker and Pierce, Walker and Pierce. They're everywhere. Everything runs through them, every possession, every decision, everything. It's their team. And they're playing harder than he's ever seen them -- much more focused, almost possessed -- and well, it just doesn't make sense.
It goes deeper. He keeps watching ... and things keep jumping out...
The vaunted press? Gone. Kaput. O'Brien had been urging him for months to dump it. Said it tired out Walker and Pierce. Said they needed to keep those guys on the court as much as possible, at least 40 minutes a game. Said it was their team. Said they would respond with the added responsibility. Maybe he should have listened...
The roster? Chopped down. No more Bomb Squad. The best players play as much as possible. Three or four guys come off the bench for limited minutes, just to spot the starters. Everything revolves around Walker and Pierce. Walker and Pierce, Walker and Pierce, Walker and Pierce.
The rotation? According to the announcers, everybody gets an assigned amount of minutes these days. For instance, Vitaly comes in at the six-minute mark of the first and third quarters and plays eight-minute stretches. And that's every game. Maybe that's why he isn't looking over his shoulder at the bench every two minutes.
The defense? Who are these guys? This certainly couldn't be the same team he coached, right? Look at all the deflections, the rotations, the floorburns ... these guys are beyond inspired. Could the press really have worn them out that much? Are they communicating better because he's not screaming instructions at them?
The coach? Seems pretty laid back. You can barely hear him. Almost like he rolled the ball out and let the players play. Hmmmm.
The crowd? Going bonkers. Crazy. Wildly supportive. Best crowd since Opening Night in '97. Why didn't they cheer like that when he was there? Heck, they're even cheering Antoine! Where did these fans come from? Didn't Celtic Pride expire with the Garden?
The players? Suddenly they don't look so terrible. When did Eric Williams become an upper-echelon defensive player? When did Vitaly start banging bodies again like he did in Cleveland? Where does Milt Palacio get off logging crunch-time minutes? Does Mark Blount always seem to be around the rim or is it just tonight? And where were these guys when he was there?
Pierce? A different guy. Playing hard on both ends, just like when he was a rookie. Right now he looks like the best small forward in the league. Maybe he wasn't reaching Pierce? Even if they got along off the court, was it possible that he failed to inspire Pierce as a basketball player? Did Pierce just start tuning him out?
Antoine? Totally focused, totally determined. Keeping the Celts in the game even though Pierce can't throw a penny in the ocean right now. The box scores claim that Antoine turned into a legitimate "25/10/7" guy every night ... now he's seeing it with his own eyes. Yup. That jerk waited until he left town before turning into a franchise guy. Look at him. Leader on the floor. Never acting out. Dropped the "Hey, look at me!" attitude and just seems to care about winning games. When he's playing like this, there's nobody in the league quite like him -- a power forward who runs the offense, shoots threes and scores inside. What's left? And why now? Did Walker just start tuning him out?
Now it's crunch-time ...
He finds himself rooting for these guys ... they were his guys, after all. All of them. Even if he didn't want them. He sees Pierce willing himself to the line time and time again. That's intelligent, heads-up basketball; the guy doesn't have his jumper tonight so he's getting to the stripe. And Walker keeps making the right decisions -- spinning the right way on the double teams, reversing the ball, driving to the basket with the right mismatch and so on. And the Celts keep hanging on to that lead. And that defense ... good God, they're holding the Bucks under 40% shooting! What's going on here?
He inches closer to the TV. He's pulling for them and he's dying inside, all at the same time. He sees the crowd standing and cheering ... makes him jealous. Three straight possessions in the final minute, Pierce gets to the line each time. Buries the free throws to boot. Williams forces a steal in the final seconds and the Bucks run out of time. It's over. They held off the freaking Bucks. Antoine finishes with a 36/13. Pierce misses 17 of 22 shots and still squeaks out 27 points. The team shot 35% and still won the game. Those are the best kind of victories, when you scratch out a "W" on an off-night. He remembers ... that used to happen at Kentucky all the time. Good teams always find a way to win. Always.
So why didn't it happen for him?
Deep down, he knows. He revolved the team around himself instead of Walker and Pierce. It was always his team. His team. Now? Walker and Pierce, Walker and Pierce, Walker and Pierce. They didn't want to win for him ... they wanted to win for themselves. That's the NBA. Players rule, coaches follow. That's just the way it is. In college, you're driving a race car -- hands on every step of the way -- but coaching an NBA team is like steering a boat. In other words, the boat does most of the work; you just have to guide it in the right direction and rely on your equipment. That's it.
Maybe that's why college was much more fun ... and maybe that's why he never belonged in the NBA in the first place. Just because you can drive a race car doesn't mean you know how to drive a boat. He knows this now. And as he watches the players celebrating ... suddenly, he feels it. A sinking tug in his stomach. The moment of truth.
It wasn't them. It was me.
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Note: This column was written on January 8, 2001.
Doesn't seem that long ago. Halloween, 1997. Opening Night. The defending champs in town. Day One of the Pitino Era. Hottest ticket in years. Even the loathsome FleetCenter had a special buzz that night. No small feat.
My buddy Chip and I were watching from midcourt, throwing down Sam Adams as the Celts fell behind by 20 to the decidely uninterested Bulls. The whole night seemed a little overwhelming for Antoine and the boys -- too much pressure, too much noise, too much MJ and Scottie, too much too soon -- and they were folding in front of everyone. You could hear Chicago fans sprinkled around the arena, erupting after every Bulls basket. A wave of disappointment started to sweep through the building: "Oh no ... we may have a $50 million coach, but we still stink." You could feel it.
Rick Pitino never stopped working on the sidelines. I remember watching Coach P that night -- really watching him, studying him, taking in everything he did -- then nudging my buddy and telling him, "See that. Look at him. He looks like a real coach, doesn't he?" After suffering through two years of the Joke That Was ML Carr, it felt like dying and going to basketball heaven. This guy knew what he was doing. And there was something special about him, the way he carried himself, the twinkle in his eye, the way he was dressed, the way he clapped, the way he screamed at officials, everything.
I remember saying that some people just seem like they should be famous, like Bird, Jordan, even Pat Riley. They carry themselves differently than the rest of us, make you feel privileged just to be sitting in the same room. I have always gotten a special rush from seeing talented artists in action, whether it's an athlete, an actor, a singer, a comedian or whatever ... and Pitino seemed to fit the bill. Seeing him prance along the sidelines, hollering out instructions, changing plays, prodding his players, riding the officials and generally carrying on, he gave me a that unexpected thrill we get from watching someone exceed our expectations, when we say to ourselves, "Man, I'm not sure of many things in life, but I'm sure of one thing -- that person is good."
And then a strange thing happened: The Celtics started clawing back in the third quarter. Pitino's vaunted press forced a few turnovers, igniting him and his team. Suddenly he was hopping around like a 4th-grader with A.D.D., screaming out defensive calls like "WHITE! WHITE!" and "RED! RED!" And then the crowd started to get excited, and you could feel that special buzz in the stands again. Once the fans were involved, the young Celtics started flying around on that press as if their lives revolved around getting the basketball. The Bulls appeared to be old and tired; better yet, they looked like wanted no part of this game anymore. We were breaking their will. We were breaking the champs. Even Jordan looked like rattled, a sight so stunning that it defies description.
The crowd grew louder and louder (I'm talking Garden-level loud), and it kept building, a frenzy, and suddenly we were within two, and it felt like Game Friggin' Seven of the '84 Finals.
And then it happened.
The Celts forced another turnover as we screamed like a group of teenage girls at an N'Sync concert. (Larry Bird could have sprinted out of the tunnel wearing a #33 jersey and we couldn't have gone any louder). Antoine ended up with the ball on the right side of the court, with Jordan covering him, as everyone settled into an excited hush. Twan backed MJ down a few feet -- suspense building, the crowd ready to erupt -- and faked like he wanted to drive left towards the middle. Suddenly, Twan was spinning towards the baseline for a fall-away jumper ... a surprised MJ jumped out and fouled him ... the referee blew the whistle, but the shot was in the air ...
Almost like he had choreographed the whole thing, Antoine punctuated the basket by calmly performing The Wiggle right in MJ's face -- showing a watermelon-sized set of balls, but who cared? -- then adding a shriek and a fist pump as McCarty scurried over for a thunderous chest bump. Now we were jumping up and down, practically beside ourselves, and the Celtics were good again and ML was gone and we were beating the champs and everything was right with the world again. Celtics Pride, baby. I'm telling you, it was a GREAT moment.
That was the turning point. The boys held off the champs in the fourth quarter, sending everyone skipping towards the exits. We believed. We cheered as the players high-fived their way off the court. Pitino followed behind them, his face covered by an enormous grin, as the fans near the exit runway gave him a heartfelt ovation. He waved and pumped his fist, finally disappearing into the back and out of sight.
The Pitino Era had already peaked.
We had no idea.
I found myself thinking about that story on Saturday night during the tail end of the Miami-Boston game, a spiritless 28-point loss that doubled as Pitino's last night coaching the Celtics. Truth be told, he lost the team a long time ago; none of his Boston teams ever played as hard as they did in that first season, with the constant player movement taking an inevitable toll. There were just too many trades, too many rumors. Nobody felt safe. They liked him ... they didn't trust him. The fans turned on him as well. So did the media. There was something tragic about watching such a talented guy fail so miserably, so collossally, so spectacularly. You couldn't help but feel sorry for him, even though he skipped off with thirty million and left the franchise in such dreadful shape.
Near the end of the Miami game, there was a memorable moment when Paul Pierce came out and walked by Pitino on the bench, who inexplicably hugged Pierce and looked as if he might start sobbing on the sidelines. Pitino's face appeared pale and gaunt, years of defeat finally catching up to him over these past few months. His eyes were moist and looked red. His mouth clamped shut, like he was fighting off tears. He looked like a shell of himself, a guy at the end of his rope, a guy ready to quit, to give up, to walk away and never look back. And he did.
Drinking the Pitino Kool-Aid
Note: This column was written on March 2, 1998.
My two favorite television shows right now? "Beverly Hills 90210" and "The Rick Pitino Show." Sure, they don't have much in common. Pitino's show doesn't have anything resembling fake breasts, drug use or wanton sexual misconduct (unfortunately, Channel 4 edits those things out). There isn't any Ian Ziering-caliber bad acting in Pitino's show either, unless you count all the times that co-host Bob Lobel forces himself to laugh at Coach P's jokes.
So what does "The Rick Pitino Show" have? Rick Pitino, easily the most mesmerizing television presence this side of Anthony Robbins. When Pitino explains something in detail -- with a confident smile, bulging eyes, and an approving nod -- you start to feel like the people of Guyana when Jim Jones wanted everyone to drink poison. He could convince Kenneth Starr that Clinton never got naked with Lewinsky. He could convince Bob Costas to hate baseball. Hell, he could convince the guys on the Patriots defense that Drew Bledsoe's not a wuss. Rick Pitino is John Wooden, Michael Corleone, and David Koresh all rolled into one.
Last night's "Pitino Show" was the best episode of the year. In case you missed it, here's what transpired:
Our first glimpse of Pitino and Lobel, coming on tape from the team's practice facility at Brandeis. Pitino is wearing a white Celtics t-shirt and green warmup pants. A whistle hangs around his neck. He looks very coach-like. Lobel is wearing a green-and-white striped sweater covering a white turtleneck, with khakis and white sneakers and a happy, "Who's up for some drinks after the taping?" glow about him.
The Kenny Anderson trade is the first topic of conversation. Coach P describes the team's "road trip from hell" -- eight games on the West Coast in 13 days, with a major trade thrown right in the middle. He describes the mechanics of the trade: Anderson became available because he refused a trade to Toronto, then Pitino called around the league to find out about his personality and learned that, on a Portland team full of "characters," Anderson was apparently one of the sane ones. Of course, this is like saying Nicolas Cage was the only sane passenger on "Con Air," but it's good to hear nontheless.
Coach P mentions that his first Knicks team had a similar record to this year's Boston team, and that team ended up making the playoffs. Hmmm. He thinks they need 42-43 wins to get the eighth seed, which seems attainable. And as Coach P astutely notes, "Any time you talk about a team that can beat Seattle and L.A. on the road (AKA the Celts), maybe we can WIN in the playoffs."
At this point, I'm sitting on my sofa nodding to myself, as if that made all the sense in the world. Maybe we can WIN in the playoffs. Has a 15-win team ever made the Finals the next season? I actually wondered that in my living room. That's the power of Pitino. Maybe we can WIN in the playoffs. Why not? Stranger things have happened. Do you think we can get past Michael and the Bulls in a seven-game series? Maybe if Antoine gets hot and he carries us ... maybe we can win ... maybe we can win ... maybe we can WIN in the playoffs ...
Now we're in the locker room looking at Coach P and Lobel in front of a chalkboard. The chalkboard lists all seven players in the trade (guys we gave up on the left, guys we got on the right) and looks something like this:
- Billups ------ Anderson ----- $2.8
Brown ------ Jones (FA) ----- $4.0
Thomas ----- Tabak (FA) ----- $6.7
Pitino proceeds to recount each reason why the Celtics made the Kenny Anderson trade, with startling efficiency, like he's giving a dissertation on the five reasons how Jack Kennedy avoided war with Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It takes about 200 seconds in all:
1. The Celtics had salary cap problems. Other NBA teams offered to take on some of Boston's useless big-money contracts (AKA Dee Brown, Greg Minor, or Pervis Ellison), but only if the Celts gave up one of their rookies (Chauncey Billups or Ron Mercer) in the deal. Pitino had two goals for any potential trade: "Create cap room and get value for value." In other words, they weren't giving up Chauncey unless they got a good player back, too.
(Sounds good. I'm already sold.)
2. As Pitino says, "It would take Chauncey 4 or 5 years to get to the level that Kenny Anderson is at right now, so we improved our team immediately." He also believes Kenny "will be an All-Star in our system."
(Absolutely! At this point, I'm starting to think Kenny Anderson is Isiah Thomas, Tiny Archibald, and Tim Hardaway all rolled into one.)
3. The Celts gave up four players and received only one one player signed through next season (Anderson). This move created an additional $2.8 million in cap room, which will give the C's $4-to-5 million to spend this summer on a free agent. Therefore, it's almost like getting a player-to-be-named later in the trade -- whichever free agent the team signs this summer.
(Seriously, this trade is starting to sound like the Lufthansa heist. I hope this trade doesn't end up with Zan Tabak's body found frozen in a meat truck.)
4. Because every rookie becomes a free agent after three seasons, the Celts faced a situation in which Walker (a two-year player) and the rookies (Billups and Mercer) would all be signing big contracts 12 months apart before the end of the century. With Anderson already signed through 2003, the team only needs to re-sign Mercer and Walker for big money down the road.
(Personally, this sounds like a load of crap, but I'll buy it because Pitino would never lie ... ummm ... would he?)
5. As part of Toronto's previous deal with Portland, the Blazers are paying Anderson's contract for this season and next season ($6.7 million). More money for Antoine? More money for a free agent?
(Okay, it's official: This was the greatest trade in the history of sports. And Pitino never even mentioned the most important part of the deal -- the fact that Anderson will be able to create shots for players like Walker and Mercer, which Billups couldn't do.)
Speaking of Billups, Lobel then asks Pitino about giving up on a young player like Billups, the third pick in the 1997 Draft who played just 50 games in a Celtics uniform before Pitino traded him, mostly because he couldn't play point guard in an up-tempo offense. Pitino's response?
"It wasn't giving up on a young player because we thought he was fantastic!"
That answer was the equivalent of the final scene of "The Godfather," when Michael's wife asks Michael if he had his brother-in-law Carlo killed: "Is it true, Michael? Is it true?"
And Michael says, "We didn't have Carlo killed! We thought he was fantastic!"
Remember, Carlo wasn't a true point guard either.
This is the best segment of the show, when Coach P gives coaching tips and does coach things. Today we're discussing "how to defend pick-and-rolls" in the Brandeis practice gym, and Pitino is forcing Greg Minor, Dana Barros, Andrew DeClercq, and Ron Mercer to participate. Just as an aside, what other NBA coach could make four of his players participate in a televised drill for local sports show? That's the power of Coach P.
We see Mercer guarding Barros and Minor guarding DeClercq. They all have stupid grins on their faces, looking like they might wave into the camera to say hi to their girlfriends. For the next five minutes Mercer and Minor demonstrate the three ways the Celtics defend the pick-and-roll play:
1. "Blitzing" the point guard.
2. "Hedging over and sprinting out."
3. "Hedging out and then sliding underneath."
I'll explain the three theories using the Store 24 in Charlestown as an example. Let's say I walked into Store 24 to buy a USA Today with my buddy J-Bug. As I pick up the newspaper about ten feet from the cash register, I notice two old ladies meandering inside the store, ready to purchase about 200 lottery tickets each. This means I'll be waiting in line behind them for at least eight hours, and all for a lousy USA Today. So J-Bug and I must figure out a way to prevent these ladies from getting in line before us. I take the bigger lady with black hair who also might buy cigarettes (she's setting the pick); J-Bug takes the smaller lady who's holding $200 in cash in her hands and eyeing the lottery machine (she has the ball).
We have three choices:
1. Before the Big Lady sets the pick on J-Bug, we dart out in front of them and "blitz" the Cash Lady. We let the Big Lady roll off and head towards the register because we don't mind giving up a pack of cigarettes. Then we double-team the Cash Lady, beat her into submission, and steal her money.
2. As the Big Lady sets the pick, J-Bug "hedges" over in front of the pick and "sprints out", forcing the double-team on the Cash Lady. There's a chance she might try and toss the cash over our heads to the Big Lady, who's rolling towards the register -- that's why we must keep our hands in the air and stay in Cash Lady's face. Then we'll beat her into submission and steal her money.
3. The Big Lady sets the pick and J-Bug "hedges over and slides" underneath her, keeping himself between the cash register and the Cash Lady. I also hedge over and slide, keeping myself between the big lady and the register. We still have position on them and nothing's really happened. This way, we can turn and dart for the register so I can pay for my newspaper before they get there.
Personally, I like the option #2 -- "the hedge and sprint-out" -- because we force the issue and potentially might get a turnover. But that's just me.
(Did I mention I love "The Rick Pitino Show?")
The final segment brings Pitino and Lobel into the studio to answer fan mail (a chance for Coach P to show his "lighter" side). Today's questions come from the Boston Red Sox spring training camp in Fort Myers!
First off, Sox outfielder Darren Bragg asks about good Italian food places in Boston. Where should he go? Pitino tells him that there's a million great places in the North End, but he should definitely try Old Cantina, Pagliuca's and Filipo's. And you should never forget about Davio's or Ciao Bello. Adds Lobel, "Tell 'em Rick sent you ... and he'll pick up the tab." Yuk yuk yuk. Where's the laugh track?
That's followed by Sox infielder Tim Naehring asking the Coach, "How do you stay out of (The Boston Herald's) 'Inside Track'?"
This question is funny on three levels. First of all, Tim Naehring is always in the "Inside Track" because he's a ladies man and hits the town all the time. Second, the "Inside Track" gals worship him and keep his baseball card in their purses. When rumors were flying around last November that Naehring was getting traded to Cleveland, they both went on anti-depressant medication. Finally, Pitino has made the "Track" about 50 times since he was hired last spring anyway ... but it's never "good" gossip; it's always stuff like "We hear that Rick Pitino ordered not one but TWO cannolis at Cafe Pomidoro last night!"
Pitino's response to Naehring: "Stay at home, read a good book, turn on some music, watch TV ... stay out of Daisy Buchanan's and Faneuil Hall, stay out of all the hot spots, and you won't be in the 'Inside Track.' Then again, if I were single I'd love to be in the 'Inside Track!' I'd be right with you, Timmy!"
(Note to the Track Gals: Is that an open challenge to you or what? You're not taking that sitting down, are you?)
Finally, Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette asks Pitino, "What's Bob Lobel like to work with?" This is an apparent reference to the fact that Duquette and Lobel are rumored to be teaming up on a weekly show (along the lines of Pitino's show), which should be the most successful NBC programming decision since "Manimal."
Pitino uses the question to lay into Lobel AND Duquette: "Well Dan, Bob's the life of the party here. He lights up a room when he leaves it. The two of your personalities will really knock 'em dead here in Boston." Then he calmly pulls out a gun, shoots a bullet through Lobel's head and walks off the screen. Okay, I made that last sentence up. But that's Rick Pitino, the most mesmerizing presence in television today. And maybe his show doesn't have fake breasts, drug use, and wanton sexual misconduct like "90210." But in a mere thirty minutes, the following things that happened:
Coach P made the 1998 NBA Finals seem like a reasonable goal for a Celtics team that can't even win three consecutive games. He detailed every facet of the Kenny Anderson trade in less than 200 seconds and made it seem like highway robbery. He demonstrated how to defend against the pick-and-roll in less than 300 seconds. He lied about "giving up" on Chauncey Billups with a straight face. He listed some fine Italian restaurants in the Boston-area. He warned Tim Naehring about the gossip sheets. And he managed to insult Bob Lobel and Dan Duquette at the same time.
Maybe next week, he can tell Noah from "90210" how to get out of this whole "date rape" thing with Valerie
Bill Simmons is a columnist for Page 2 and ESPN The Magazine. His Sports Guy's World site is updated every day Monday through Friday.


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It has an awful pattern on front, so I rotated it on the back. It looked better, but there was no room for whole minifig. But his half fits perfectly ;)
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William and Sue Lewis of 2103 Apache St. celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a party and dinner Saturday, Nov. 30, at their daughter's home, 900 White Hills Trail.
Hosts for the event were the children of the couple and their spouses.
Lewis married the former Alice Sue Graham on Nov. 27, 1952, in Clovis, N.M. The couple previously resided in Pampa. They have lived in Amarillo for 36 years.
Lewis is retired from the U.S. Postal Service. Mrs. Lewis is retired from Amarillo National Bank.
Children of the couple and their spouses are Richard and Diane Lewis, John and Angie Lewis, Selena and James Hart and Bill Lewis, all of Amarillo.
The couple have nine grandchildren: Jeremy Lewis, Joshua Lewis, Stephanie Kimball, Susan Lewis, La Quita Hart, Christina Smith, Joshua Hart, Shawn Hawkins and Silver Lewis; and seven great-grandchildren.
Amarillo Globe-News, Dec. 1, 2002
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I recently moved from b2evolution where I had a cool piece of code that allowed me to select multiple categories as a search. It was called Before & After Categories Plugin (if I remember right, it was written after I requested it) and it worked like a charm--it generated selection boxes before each category and radio buttons for ANY, ANY BUT, and ALL.
WordPress has a much better search feature, but I'd still like to have the multiple category selector as I often want to search for a group of posts that wouldn't come up with a search. (For example, if I type "firsts and owen" in the search box, I get a result of one post. But I know there are at least 25 posts that are tagged with both the Firsts and Owen categories.)
I've looked at all the category selector plugins but haven't found anything that gives the result I'd like. Is there one I'm missing? Is this something that can easily be written?
Here's a sample photo (from the Wayback Machine) since I obviously no longer have that blog setup (it's moved here).


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Holder, hypocrite
Last Wednesday, Eric Holder, the nation's first black attorney general, took full advantage of his new powers by publicly scolding Americans (about 75 percent of whom are not black) that it was "a nation of cowards" in discussing racial matters ("Holder: Americans Cowardly About Race Discussions," Feb. 19). For a man in his high position, this racial statement is an embarrassment and hypocrisy.
Is he too stupid to recognize that the white voting majority refused to consider President Barack Obama's race or skin color as being any detriment to his ability to act as president?
Mr. Holder seems to have completely missed the lesson taught by President Obama's amazing success. Mr. Obama demonstrated that, in the end, skin color isn't as important as who you are and what you represent.
I can't help but wonder if our new attorney general is genuinely capable of the same racial impartiality that was demonstrated by American voters in November.
WILLIAM McCARTHY
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Do you want to explore where God is leading you to serve? Our short-term opportunities could be perfect for you.
Do you want to be involved but know that for now you are unable to live in Nepal?
Are you a Nepali national keen to serve with INF?
To explore where you might best use your God given gifts and calling to bring life in all its fullness to the people of Nepal you can find out more about the process, see the roles we are seeking to fill or contact recruitment.
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The effective recruitment, deployment and support of expatriate mission personnel in Nepal is vital for INF's ministry. We're looking for an experienced manager, preferably with HR experience, who can help us to support, nurture and develop our team of amazing mission personnel. This strategic role involves leading the personnel team and interacting across the whole…
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INF Sanjaal is a team of professionals that works with a range of Christian partners who share our vision and mission. They are involved in migrant ministries, health sector capacity building, developing grassroots Christian integral mission organisations and supporting Christian Nepali professionals to engage with development issues. We are looking for an experienced and visionary…
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INF Nepal is looking into recruiting a qualified and self-motivated Nepali for the post of Internal Auditor. The post will be based in Pokhara with frequent travel to INF working areas. You will be responsible for developing and conducting the INF Internal Audit program in order to provide good governance within the INF by ensuring…
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Calles (streets) run east/west or perpendicular to the sea. If you are driving east/west you must stop at every block corner.
The Avenidas (Avenues) run north/south beginning at the beachfront and run parallel to the sea. Avenidas are numbered in increments of 5 all the way up to 150 now. If you are driving north/south, in theory, you have the right of way and don't have to stop at each block corner.
Beware . there are exceptions to these guidelines but this gives an overview of the initial city plan.
The plaza and Juarez Street are considered the center of town.
Avenidas and Calles north of these will be referred to as Norte and have even numbers of 2, 4, 6, etc.
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I love books. Given the choice, I'd rather read than do pretty much anything else.
And so would my children.
We love going to bookstores and spending hours discovering new literature, especially the ones with furniture set up to encourage reading.
On our way home from haircuts one rainy afternoon, I decided to stop at a bookstore. It seemed like such a cozy thing to do on such a drizzly day.
But as soon as we walked into this particular store, the feeling was anything but cozy. I kept getting stern looks which seemed to say, "children should be seen and not heard." I almost felt like I should be pushing a gold-trimmed sham with a beautiful doll-like baby inside — sleeping peacefully, of course — while I carefully selected literature that would expand her growing mind.
Not holding the hands of two very curious, happy boys with granola bar bits stuck to their shirts.
Immediately, I went into apologetic mode. "I'm so sorry, they just love books," I said as they both took off in different directions. I kept trying to hold their hands and guide them to what I thought were kid-friendly toys and books.
"Are you planning on purchasing that?" one of the workers asked me, pointing to a shiny red car my 3-year-old had found.
"Um " I began.
"Because if you aren't," she interrupted, "then we need to put it back. We like to keep our toys clean for purchase."
I can understand that. But my son was crushed as she took it away, guiding him toward some very old, dirty stuffed animals that both my son and I wrinkled our nose at.
In the end, we did end up purchasing one book and a little finger-stamp set, but I have to admit the day was a little tainted for me. I felt like the wonderful, imaginative world of reading was somehow less magical because my kids didn't feel invited.
A few weeks later, my sister invited me to a charming little Bountiful bookstore called All Tucked In. I was a little hesitant to bring my boys based on last month's experience, but I decided to give it another try.
A little bell on the door ringed as we walked in, and I instantly thought of Meg Ryan and the bookstore of her character, Kathleen Kelly, Shop Around the Corner, in "You've Got Mail."
It was charming. There was a little table and chairs with wooden trains and cars ready for play. Blocks, a kitchen set and stuffed animals were set up beside it. And right at toddler level were board books and activities.
Now, I don't think that kids should be allowed to take down and destroy any book or toy they see. Maybe the previous store had problems with that in the past. If by chance something got ripped, scuffed, scratched or torn, we would buy it.
But that didn't seem to be a concern for this manager, who was incredibly warm and pleasant. She kept saying she hoped customers felt like friends, and celebrated my children's eager excitement to read.
I am grateful for bookstores that encourage a love of literature for curious minds of all ages and stages.
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How to beat someone up....
Tao Style!
Tao Style!
Nice Kung Pow reference! XD
Great timing!
the worst beating ever recieved
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I don't want to live on this planet anymore if anyone needs me I'll be on Planet Namik
I wonder what happened to namek... Oh wait..
When I watched this online, the song got stuck in my head. XD Faves.
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawww............Goku's so cute!
tao (kill you ) xD lol
whats the name of the music ?
whats the name of the music ?
It's called Baby got Back by Sir Mix A lot, but some guys think it's called I like Big Butts and I cannot Lie.
goku gotta major butt whoopin with tao playing big butts.......
Goku for the love of god, don't fight tao pai pai...He kicks your ass when he plays big butts
XD *Facepalms while laughing hysterically* LOL nice. That's just pure gold right there lol seriously.
Beware his song about big butts.
lolz lolz lolz "you get sprunged *blast** Game Over
trunks:NOOOOOOOOOO*vegeta punches his stomach*
vegeta:shut the F*** up
trunks:NOOOOOOOOOO*vegeta punches his stomach*
vegeta:shut the F*** up
poor poor goku
That is comedy gold.
I think this is your best one yet!
Poor Oopa XD
Nice. Goku's a little too orange though.
>.< lol for some reason lily like this song
Betty just killed Goku (yes I know not really)
"Beware his song about big butts..."
Haha! classic
I LOL'ed at the song. " I like big butts and i cannot lie...." XD
OMGLOLWTFBBQDDR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im okay now :3
I love how as soon as he said the O on Okay I screamed MASTER BETTY AHMIGAWD
then died laughing before the Big Butts song came on XD
then died laughing before the Big Butts song came on XD
oh snazzle berries, watching this gave me a flashback of DB on Toonami. :'D Such good times and i just laughed at how the Tao's(that the pink wearing guy's name?) attacks were in beat with the song. XD
lmao ncie
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Now that's what i call kickin some ASS in style XD
lolzzzz so funny! Love your icon by the way!
LOL Big butts FTW
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Nine-member K-pop group, Girls' Generation, also known as SNSD, made their U.S network TV debut by performing their hot single, "The Boys," on The Late Show with David Letterman last night (Jan. 31).
One of the most watched late night shows, The Late Show is famous for its celebrity guests, from politicians to Hollywood actors and actresses. This is a breakthrough for K-pop because this is the first time Korean singers have been invited as the musical act.
After their stellar debut last night, Girls' Generation performed "The Boys" again on Live! With Kellytoday to a cheering crowd and taught some of their dance moves to host Kelly Ripa and guest co-host Howie Mandel.
While Girls' Generation has started to accumulate a worldwide audience, K-pop is also rising in popularity with other leading K-pop groups such as the Wonder Girls, who made their U.S. TV debuton The Wendy Williams Show in 2009 and is considered GG's biggest rivals. The Wonder Girls are set to screen their TV movie, a cross between Fame, Step Up, and Bring It On, on TeenNick tomorrow, February 2 at 5PM pst/ 8PM est. To watch the movie trailer, click here.
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SOURCE: Curtis, L. Perry, Jr. "Physiognomy: Ancient and Modern." In Apes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian Caricature, pp. 1-15. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
In the following essay, Curtis discusses the role of physiognomy in shaping cultural beliefs about the Irish in Victorian England. Physiognomy was applied in nineteenth-century novels and graphic satire, and its semi-scientific nature appeared to lend credibility to English beliefs about the mental and moral inferiority of the Irish.
In the year 1880 Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912), the Belgian political economist and radical essayist, published a series of epistolary articles on the condition of Ireland in the Journal des Débats. Molinari's survey of the Irish scene may not have equaled Gustave de Beaumont's notable inquiry of the 1830s in breadth of knowledge and depth of insight, but there was one passage in his appraisal of Anglo-Irish relations...
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By Ankur Relia of Dow Jones Newswires
Kuala Lumpur – Malaysian lender CIMB Group Holdings Bhd. said Tuesday it has signed an agreement to buy a 60% stake in the Philippine's Bank of Commerce for MYR881 million ($288.4 million) in cash, which would give the Malaysian bank a foothold in the fast-growing Philippine market.
The deal to buy the majority stake in the privately held Philippine lender comes a month after CIMB acquired part of Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC's cash equities and associated investment banking businesses in the region as part of its plan to become a pan-Asian bank, and Malaysia's second-largest lender by assets is also in talks with RBS to acquire its 50% stake in Australia-based RBS Morgans.
CIMB Group Chief Executive Nazir Razak said CIMB has always been interested in buying a stake in RBS Morgans to boost its presence in Australia. RBS Morgans' management owns the other 50% of the brokerage, which provides equities research, corporate finance and wealth and portfolio management services.
Mr. Razak said the bank is "currently negotiating" with RBS for the stake, but declined to disclose financial details.
RBS Morgans was excluded from the GBP88.4 million deal that CIMB and RBS signed earlier this year under which CIMB is set to acquire RBS's cash equities and associated investment banking businesses in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan.
CIMB and its larger domestic rival, Malayan Banking Bhd., have been acquiring regional assets in recent years to facilitate their plan to expand overseas. Last year, Maybank, Malaysia's largest lender by assets, acquired Singapore brokerage firm Kim Eng Holdings Ltd. for $1.4 billion.
Mr. Razak said CIMB is buying Bank of Commerce shares from San Miguel Properties Inc., San Miguel Corporation Retirement Plan and Q-Tech Alliance Holdings Inc, which collectively own 98.5% of the bank. After the stake purchase, San Miguel Corp. Retirement Plan will remain the largest minority shareholder in Bank of Commerce with a 27% stake.
"As an Asean universal bank, this extension into the Philippines is a very natural one. I believe we are entering this market at the right time, with the right deal and right partner," CIMB Group Chief Executive Nazir Razak said in the statement.
Mr. Razak also said CIMB expects to complete the acquisition by the end of third quarter and expects the deal to be earnings accretive from 2013.


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Running Time: 96
Director: Matt Zane
Company: Zane Entertainment Group
Cast: Papillon, Kyle Stone (straight), Shay Sweet, Holli Woods, Red (I), Ruby (I), J.J. Michaels, Dave Hardman, Charlie (I), Tim White, Solveig, Katie Gold, Steve Hatcher
Critical Rating: AA 1/2
Genre: All-Sex
For two of its four scenes, Degrees of Decadence is fairly hot. They include a three-way in which Steve Hatcher and Dave Hardman nail Solveig in a double-pussy, a d.p., a double face-fuck and, finally, a creamy double facial. The closing threesome with Ruby also scalds in spots. Unfortunately, Degree's two remaining sequences, including the opening gangbang, falter.


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Skip to comments.Rockstar lifestyle might survive after college
Posted on 11/29/2006 7:22:19 AM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
Students often use the excuse that the best times of their lives are in college so they can use drugs and abuse alcohol, but I recently found out that you can still party well after the convocation ceremony.
While attending the Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band concert in Knoxville, Tenn., with my father, I saw baby boomers doing everything college students do today. I expected the concert to be fun, but watching these 40-, 50- and 60-year-olds partying was truly a learning experience.
While rocking out to tunes like "Still the Same" and "Turn the Page," the older concert-goers were drinking excessively, passing around the sticky-icky, and being utterly loud and obnoxious - just like college students.
A lot of students like to party hard in college because they believe that college is the only time in their lives they are allowed to drink and look stupid doing it. Youngsters have been trained to believe that after college their lives are virtually over. After college comes responsibilities, work, bills, kids and uneventful life experiences. But this isn't true in the slightest.
With this perception of a dismal life after college, students find it completely acceptable to get blackout drunk without any repercussions. This need to "live life" in college pressures students into drinking to the point of alcohol poisoning. Attending the concert made me realize that life after graduation is something to look forward to.
Instead of drinking as much alcohol as you can before you pass out or smoking enough weed to numb your entire body, students need to understand that they can still have a good time after receiving a degree.
These gray rockers proved to me that partying isn't reserved for the young. At the concert, I saw both men and women falling over drunk, getting high, fighting, dancing drunkenly by themselves and urinating in a grimy parking lot.
Everything that typical partying students do in college was being done by their 50-year-old counterparts.
Bob Seger himself proves that even at 61 you can rock a full house of 12,000 screaming fans. This observation of the older rock 'n' rollers made me see that college students don't need to cram a million party experiences in four years because they have the rest of their lives to have fun, whether it be drinking, peeing in parking lots or just meeting new people.
Don't get me wrong, I believe college is a source of a lot of great moments. But we have the next 40, 50 or 60 years to live our lives the way we choose. Using the excuse that college is the "best time of our lives" shouldn't hold up because at 20, we haven't been able to experience a tenth of the moments that await us in the next 40 to 60 years.
Instead of speeding up, we need to slow down our party-hard lifestyles.
Next time you're at the bar taking your eighth shot of Wild Turkey or starting a fight with someone for "smart-eyeing" you, try to remember that nearly all of the things you do now can be done at any age.
Whether or not it is openly accepted is an entirely different column altogether.
Slight difference between college students getting drunk and baby boomers. It's illegal for the college students...a fact that seems to totally escape the college student until they're arrested/ticketed for underage drinking.
AOL chatroom gathering? Oh, I forgot, there was no mention of sex while bent over a dumpster.
I was thinking the same ... immature and refusing to grow up! They don't release just how ridiculous they are.
"Still the Same"
I paid $5 to see him live about 30 years ago. I think he's getting $65+ for tickets now.
How inspiring.
Looking back on my life (I'm 65 now) the best time of my life was between 40 and 50.
Sure college was fun and the Army Boot Camp put me in the best shape of my life. Ages 25-35 were super learning experinces, with Viet Nam in there.
But Age 40, I finally came into my own. I no longer cared what others thought. I could make decisions with full confidence that they were the right decisions.
During my 50's it was a time of slow decay of my medical and physical being, not so hot.
However, not once did my ability to party dwindle.
Any relation to Willie Nelson?
Bumper stickers on the car of the 40 something next door to me:
I may be getting older but I refuse to grow up
Body by Budweiser
And he cannot understand why I don't like his outdoor mega bass subwoofers at full volume during the summer time.
I used to go see him years ago at the Hideout, when he was Bobby Seger and the Last Herd.
Almost the same scene - lots of doobies being passed around - but very little drinking.
If it ever does, they have pills now that can fix it.
Some don't realize that us antiques were there when rock 'n roll was in its infancy. Yes, Virginia, there was life even before the Beatles.
I've been drunk a few times. Hate hangovers. Moderation in all things. Didn't smoke rope, except twice. Like beer 'n Jack better.
Good music has know age limit. If music gets your heart started, it can begin, or end, even the ugliest day.
My favorite from Bob Seger is "Her Strut". Love the words,
and, it COOKS. Think I'll crank it up right now.
Rock and Roll Never Forgets.
What kind of silly scold would attend a rock concert of a rocker with a fan base going back almost 40 years, and then get upset that some of the audience was over 40.
It was a rock concert, try attending the opera, or a republican convention, and you will find an even higher number of people over 40.
Many college students see these days as being freedom from their parents, and they live hard and fast with the rules. Their brains are still full of mush and they don't realize that having a good time does not entail waking up on the bathroom floor in their own vomit.
With maturity it is hoped that the majority of them will learn about moderation. In doing so, they inevitably have much more fun when living it up with their friends.
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"Turn the Page", isn't that a Metallica song that he's covering? ;)
Reminds me of the song by Cake
<< Well, your CD collection looks shiny and costly.
How much did you pay for your bad Moto Guzzi?
And how much did you spend on your black leather jacket?
Is it you or your parents in this income tax bracket?
Now tickets to concerts and drinking at clubs,
Sometimes for music that you haven't even heard of.
And how much did you pay for your rock'n'roll t-shirt
That proves you were there,
That you heard of them first?
How do you afford your rock'n'roll lifestyle? >>
"...drinking as much alcohol as you can before you pass out or smoking enough weed to numb your entire body,..."
I never really understood the appeal.
But I'm really only on this thread for the weed.
I quit drinking because I didn't want my kids to see me drunk.
I'm here for the beer... I ain't leavin' till I'm heavin'
I got my vasectomy for the very same reason.
The problem is that these "greying rockers" that are falling down drunk at the Bob Seger concert are probably in the same income bracket that they were in when they left school, if they even attended college in the first place.
"No mention of Sex while bent over a dumpster"?????
Hmmm. Did he call you the next day?
Doesn't sound any different than your average NFL game.
All throughout history people will let go from time-to-time. I'm all for work, family, and responsibility, but once in a while, letting go, having a good time is great for one's soul.
Some men work on getting "six pack" abs... Me? I've got a pony keg...
I'm 52. My band is playing at the Red Hen on the 28th. It's a blast but I only have one beer and water throughout the night. Playing the music is the fun part.
You do see a lot of "50 going on 17" men and women though.
-"Students often use the excuse that the best times of their lives are in college..."-
It's because they don't know any better, hence the use of the word "student". And there's nothing more pathetic than watching 40+ folks getting sloppy drunk.
My dad used to play Seger for me when I was a wee lad, and now we have tickets to see him in Boston in January. I can't wait!
Thats because you were in Grand Rapids. Lots of stiff necks in that town. Its a nice place if you like hills and trees, but far too uptight IMO.
It seems to shake their little psyches' like an earthquake seeing the people they've been told they were supposed to look up to and respect having too much fun. Especially if it involves music and all the other party accoutrements that go with a rock concert.
It also gives them a serious wake-up call when they see how stupid they're going to look in a few years, when they are so-called grown-ups.
That's why I try to avoid the little punks when I want to have a good time. Life is too short to associate with lightweights with issues.
LOL. I guess we have the boomers to thank for the very idea that gross over-partying is for college kids...no one wants to grow up to be the creepy old dude at the club! Sadly, many of my old friends have become just that.
I struggle with the whole "do I live it up still or set myself out to pasture" issue, and I'm "only" 34. I use scare quotes because when I was in my 20's that was totally over the hill. ;) I mean, you're older and wiser but still love the same things, what to do? I recently saw the English Beat, at the time five months pregnant, I felt like an ass! (yes I stayed far away from smoke and speakers - they don't draw a real party-hard crowd anyway)
In college I didn't think shutting down your brain with alcohol amounted to living life to the fullest, and I still don't. Drugs are stupid, too. Pursue knowledge, meet people, learn about life in college. Self-sedation is a nasty fashion promoted by corporate advertising.
Here's the answer: Rising BACs feel good. Real good. Falling BACs, not so much.
Gas. Grass. Ass. Nobody rides for free.
Reminds me of an interview I saw with Nugent:
Nuge: I never drank, never took drugs
Interviewer: What about your album 'Journey to the Center of Your Mind'?
Nuge: I was like, 'yeah, introspection's good...'
So, are you younger or older than he is? Just trying to see which side the jealousy is coming from. :)
Best frickin line of the day award.
Dear ichabod1,
From my own personal experience, when my BAC got high enough that I could feel it, I didn't like it.
I enjoy a drink or two, but I've never enjoyed drunkenness.
A chacun son goût, I guess.
I'm older, my daughter is younger; we both dislike loud bass line thumping and low tone vibration from which there is no escape; neither of us jealous. Guess your neighbors don't mind your outdoor mega bass speakers, huh?
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AVONDALE, Ariz. -- Mike Ford's back was against the wall of the No. 11 hauler as he took question after question about his decision to pit for gas with 14 laps remaining in Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Phoenix International Raceway.
You could make the case that it was against the championship wall after watching Denny Hamlin's lead shrink from 33 points to 15 with one race remaining.
But Ford never wavered on what was his only choice because his car was at least seven to eight laps shy of making it to the finish without more fuel. He didn't show the frustration that his driver did a half hour earlier sitting dejected on the pit road wall and throwing a water bottle against his car. Ford's nature doesn't allow for that.
"Crew guys have just as a competitive nature as the guys that climb in [the car]," Ford explained. "This is why you do it. You like that rush. You like the weight on your shoulders. You like making things happen.
"It's fun."
For the past four years, Chad Knaus has been the crew chief having the most fun. He's been called a genius, one of the best ever at his role after leading Jimmie Johnson to an unprecedented four straight titles and no finish outside the top five in points since the two were paired in 2002.
Those accolades were repeated again on Sunday, first for the decision to make the swap of pit crews with teammate Jeff Gordon for the final two races and then for coaxing 88 laps of fuel out Johnson and his car for a fifth-place finish that put the 48 team 15 points behind Hamlin and in position for another title.
But Knaus has some serious competition in Ford, who isn't as physically fit, tailored and charismatic as his counterpart but is every bit the strategist and expert at getting the most out of his driver.
This is the battle to watch. As much as the week will be about Hamlin and Johnson -- with third-place Kevin Harvick having an outside shot 46 points back -- Sunday's finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway likely will come down to decisions made by their crew chiefs.
Pit or don't pit? Two tires or four or none? Gamble on fuel or not? Those things have a far greater chance of determining the outcome than a great pass or move on a double-file restart.
Ford and Knaus know it.
They relish it.
"Winning races is a lot of fun, but trying to win races is a helluva lot more fun," Knaus said. "I love to battle. I love getting out there and trying to figure out how to beat somebody. That is a three-hour high that you live with for the whole race.
"Trying to figure out how to win races and championships, that's what it's about."
It's well-documented what Knaus is all about, how he moved to North Carolina in 1991, later lobbied Ray Evernham for a job on Gordon's championship pit crew, took a chance to work with unknown rookie Johnson in 2002 and how their relationship was so strained after falling short of the title in 2005 that owner Rick Hendrick sat them down in his office with milk and cookies before they got on this incredible title roll.
Most don't know a lot about Ford because until now, Hamlin hasn't been a serious contender this late in the game.
Had Ford not been so outspoken after the Texas race, saying Knaus' decision to swap pit crews during the race was an act of desperation and then adding "our team is better than their race team," you may not have known his name.
But it's time you get to know Ford. The relationship and trust he and Hamlin have is similar to what has made Knaus and Johnson a Hall of Fame combination.
There are similarities in the career paths of Ford and Knaus as well, down to a connection with Evernham.
Like Knaus, Ford's first claim to fame was on a pit crew, serving as a mechanic and jack man for Dale Jarrett's 1999 championship team at Robert Yates Racing. In 2000, when Evernham moved from crew chief to team owner, he hired Ford as a crew chief for Bill Elliott. The two won the 2002 Brickyard 400 and three other races before Ford returned to RYR for a short stint with Jarrett before moving to Joe Gibbs Racing midway through 2005.
Jason Leffler was in the No. 11 at the time, but before season's end the switch was made to a promising, young driver from Chesterfield, Va.
"Mike and Denny had a little click there right off the top," JGR president J.D. Gibbs said.
The following year Hamlin finished third in points and was the rookie of the year, as Johnson won his first title in his fifth full season. Now in their fifth full season, Hamlin and Ford are challenging for that first championship.
Like Johnson and Knaus, they had their version of the milk-and-cookies meeting, although team ownership wasn't involved. It happened in 2008, when Hamlin threw his team and organization under the bus after blowing an engine late at Michigan.
He publicly criticized the engine department and attacked his pit crew for its inconsistency. As Ford said at the time, "We had some double-throwdown and not-so-friendly meetings."
"The conversation was making sure they were going in the same direction," Gibbs said. "Now that you know that, it helps makes other issues easier to handle."
Ford brought balance to Hamlin's life then. Ford was the well-grounded, no-nonsense family man who helped calm the party-hard, playboy lifestyle of his driver. He made Hamlin realize that there was more responsibility to being a driver than turning the wheel.
And he did it with the same brutal honesty that some misinterpreted for cockiness at Texas.
"He's the least cocky guy I know," said Hamlin, the defending champion at Homestead. "He's more boastful of his own team than he is skeptics of someone else's. It kind of came off wrong."
Ford may not be cocky, but he is competitive. When Knaus picked the pit stall ahead of his at Kansas, he was irate that what he thought was a gentleman's agreement had been broken.
When the opportunity arose to get even at Texas, Ford didn't hesitate.
Steve Addington, who worked with Ford while serving as Kyle Busch's crew chief -- before moving to Penske Racing this year -- describes Ford as a "fist-on-the-table guy."
"When stuff comes up, he's going to say what's on his mind and what he believes," he said.
Ford is smart and calculating, but he's not the rah-rah witty leader that Knaus can be. He motivates with facts, not locker-room fodder.
"If you debate Mike, you've got to debate facts, not feelings," Evernham said. "Mike wasn't playing head games and trying to screw those guys' [Johnson's team] heads up. He was just speaking what's on his mind."
More than anything, Ford simply is a good guy, a commonsense guy who doesn't get bogged down by what he so politely referred to as "bulls---" over what he said at Texas.
He won't let Hamlin get bogged down by losing a fuel-mileage race he dominated at Phoenix.
"They both have really in the last couple of years matured," said Greg Zipadelli, Joey Logano's crew chief who won two titles with Tony Stewart at JGR. "Denny is just a calculated machine. Mike can really do what he needs to do and know the results are going to be there. It's amazing right now.
"It comes from working together and realizing what their shortfalls have been."
Addington said it best: "Pairing him with Mike Ford, that was the best thing that could have happened to Denny Hamlin."
Even Knaus appreciates the man he'll be trying to outthink this weekend.
"He's definitely earned his stripes and earned his opportunity to be on a team of that caliber," he said. "What they've got over there is extremely good equipment and really good stuff. He makes the most of it and uses his tools to his full potential.
"If he wasn't, he wouldn't be where he's at."
Where Ford's at isn't with his back against the wall. He's just having fun and giving Knaus all he can handle.
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Many are predicting a famous Test career for Steven Finn, but Andy Flower prefers to focus on the concrete evidence yielded from his impressive showings against Bangladesh.
Finn, the Middlesex fast bowler, took 15 wickets in England's 2-0 npower Test series win sealed at Old Trafford yesterday, hastening the tourists' slide to an innings defeat with a haul of 5-42.
Though Finn admitted he did not bowl as well as at Lord's, his ability to extract steep bounce from 6ft 7in was again in evidence, not least in bouncing out Imrul Kayes in both innings.
But England team director Flower unsurprisingly quells any comparisons between Finn and Australia's all-time great Glenn McGrath.
"He has been very impressive," said the coach. "He has very, very good control for a 21-year-old fast bowler. I think that comes from his action, and also a very sound and grounded personality.
"It is a great start for him, but he also realises that he has great scope for learning and progress."
Finn will follow the path recently trodden by fellow pace bowler Stuart Broad - undergoing a strengthening programme, meaning he will miss several of Middlesex's Friends Provident t20 matches, as England try to make sure they do not squander a potential jewel.
Flower is at pains to stress England's gratitude to counties for their co-operation when players are taken out of match action.
"I would be very strong in the description that this is definitely not rest," he said, explaining why Finn will also be absent from the ODIs against Australia.
"He will not be resting; he will be doing a very intensive strengthening programme.
"He is a young man that needs to develop more physically, and there is a window of opportunity to do that.
"It is the responsible thing to do for him personally and in the best interests of the English cricket side."
There is no hint of subterfuge in the manoeuvre either, as in an attempt to hide a potential Ashes weapon from the Aussies.
"This does not have anything to do with Australia, or the Australian series," said Flower.
"I would also like to emphasise that Middlesex - Angus Fraser and (bowling coach) Richard Johnson - have been very understanding on this subject.
"I feel for the counties when we make these decisions on players and pull them out of county games.
"The directors of cricket, coaches and captains are under their own pressure with results.
"When you pull their best players out of competitive matches it is quite a hit for them.
"It requires a lot of understanding from them, and we very much appreciate it."
Mentioning Finn in the same breath as McGrath is not a great idea in Flower's company, though.
"I don't like to make those comparisons," he confirmed. "Steven Finn is unique in various ways.
"He is very much his own man. Comparing him to other fast bowlers, to me, is not useful."
If Finn lacks anything from the usual pace bowler's template, it is the obvious outward aggression seen in the likes of Broad.
Flower appears to acknowledge that, but is not significantly concerned.
"I think aggressive fast bowlers are very useful, but it is important that your own personality comes through," he said.
"He must be himself. But you also have to recognise that you are in a competitive world, and there are certain ways to show you are in that competition.
"It is important to retain your own personality, but also realise you have to win the game between you and the batsman."


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I have to find out what is this abelian group (in the form $\mathbb{Z}/m_1\mathbb{Z} \times ... $). Its relations are: $$6a+9b+6c=0$$ $$8a+12b+4c=0$$ with generator $a,b,c$. My solution is: $$\mathbb{Z}/12\mathbb{Z}\times \mathbb{Z}$$ But the first term should be a $14$ instead according to the book, Can someone help me and explain how to get there? I don't understand it.
My work: I transform the system up there into: $$6t+3u=0$$ $$8t+4u-4v=0$$ with $t=a+b+c$, $u=b$, $v=c$ Then, I transform it again in: $$3x=0$$ $$4x-4\mathbb{Z}=0\longrightarrow 4(x-\mathbb{Z})=0$$ with $x=u+2t$, $v=\mathbb{Z}$ So the group is $$\mathbb{Z}/3\mathbb{Z}\times \mathbb{Z}/4\mathbb{Z}\times \mathbb{Z}$$ And $\mathbb{Z}_3\times \mathbb{Z}_4$ is isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}/12\mathbb{Z}$, so the group is: $$\mathbb{Z}/12\mathbb{Z}\times \mathbb{Z}$$
Can someone check that's right?