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A miracle child, a miracle dog
Her mother, Shelly, has doctors' personal cell phone numbers just in case. They call from time to time to check on their miracle baby — the one they write journals about. The Murrays' favorite is Dr. Rod Batie of Community Hospital, now called Springfield Regional Medical Center. "If it wasn't for him, Aubrey would not be alive today," Shelly said. Eight months into her third pregnancy, Shelly noticed her legs were starting to swell and her stomach was getting big. Too big. Until late that summer in 1998, everything with Shelly's pregnancy was going according to plan. In a house full of males — her husband Clinton and sons Dalton and Landon — Shelly couldn't wait for another girl to be around. "But I knew something wasn't right," she said.
Fire Billy Knight first
This same ownership group trusted Don Waddell to fire Bob Hartley because they were convinced the Thrashers' coach had lost the team six games after a playoff season. Given Woodson is still employed, we have to assume he is somehow held in higher regard after over 200 losses. But since they have waited this long, they might as well make the move that makes more sense. Fire the builder, not the plumber. Permalink | Comments (119) | Post your comment | Categories: Hawks / NBA, Jeff Schultz .
Players are the problem - not umpires (1458)
In their world, deliberately conning the umpire is part and parcel of the game: “It's his decision," they offer as a cop-out. Just look at Andrew Symonds, who visibly gloated for the media when he admitted he had got away with a catch behind the wicket early in his first innings - what a miserable performance. And what effect does that have on the umpire's confidence – or that of the players in him? This Australia team plays the game to win – there's nothing wrong in that – but it has negated its responsibility to those who watch it and, more importantly, the next generation of cricketers who will inherit the battered sprit of cricket that Ponting's team leaves in its trail. Cricket can be an aggressive sport, but it is the ball and the bat that should do the talking.
Crisis? Only because the BCCI chose to make it one
Provided Steve Bucknor is allowed the dignified retirement he wants and deserves, at a time of his own choosing, the frequently villified ICC may be said to have come rather well out of the affair of Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symonds. I am not sure that the same is true of the BCCI, whose muscles were flexed somewhat indecently throughout. One understands, of course, the particular sensitivity of matters pertaining to race, but either the BCCI, like all other national representative bodies, accepts the rules of the ICC and, in this case, the procedures that everyone has agreed, whatever the outcome, or there is potential anarchy. The row that erupted at Sydney when some of the Australian players accused Harbhajan of calling Symonds a 'monkey' was only a crisis so long as the BCCI chose to make it so.
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