Win, or else
When the New Orleans Hornets fired Byron Scott as coach and replaced him with general manager Jeff Bower, the move came with an unwritten ultimatum: You built it, you fix it.
“I told Jeff, ‘The genie’s out of the bottle,’” Hornets chief executive Hugh Weber told the Associated Press. “Nobody can say he doesn’t have the right players … Jeff has hand-selected this team, and we like the idea that now he’ll be held accountable for the results.
“Our expectations are high. Our sense of urgency is high. Our patience is low and we hope that translates into results quickly.”
Nice ’stache, ladies: Mark Spitz recently recalled for the Colorado Springs Gazette a conversation he had with a Russian swim coach at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
After Spitz completed training the night before his first race, the coach asked the swimmer about his mustache. “Doesn’t it slow you down?” Spitz replied, “It doesn’t. It deflects water away from my mouth.” Spitz then went on to win seven gold medals, breaking a world record with each one.
The next year, Spitz said, “Every single Russian male swimmer had a mustache. And unfortunately, a couple East German women swimmers, too.”
PARTING SHOT “How, in the name of everything unholy, do you explain the inability of the punters this year?”
— A Notre Dame football fan
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