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Ad nauseam
Don't you love the way the wife lovingly puts her head on his shoulder at the end, when in reality she'd likely be feral with sleep deprivation? Men love beer. If that's stating the bleeding obvious, why are we still subjected to that revolting ad where the tongue leaves its owner in bed and hops out for a night on the town? It skitters across the road and into a party, scales the bath and drags home a Tooheys Extra Dry. The tongue's owner is confused about where the coldie came from, but one might bet his mouth tastes like a cocky's cage. In the US, there's a cake-taker for Volkswagen. A man so loves his Volkswagen Jetta that, when he notices bird droppings on his car, he licks them off. Then he walks up to his girlfriend's door and gives her a kiss. She pauses, only momentarily, then blithely follows him to the car.
Teens using steroids cheat themselves and their health
The measure of success in any sport is how well you use what you have to win, says Ken Locker, a certified athletic trainer at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas. "It's easy for someone to cheat and win," he adds. "With steroids, you're tricking your body. You're creating something that's not you, and that's why you're cheating." But in the sports world, from high school on up, the focus often is more on competition and less on following the rules. "It's not just the kids," says Mr. Locker, who knows of a freshman at a small university who tested positive for steroids. Regulations required the school to tell his parents what had happened. They weren't surprised. "The parents admitted to giving it to him," Mr. Locker says. "They wanted him to get a scholarship." Is there a way to get a scholarship without going the steroid route? Sure, Mr.
On a collision course with the NFL, Dave Pear is playing to win
Former NFL all-pro defensive lineman Dave Pear now must use a cane to help relieve the pain and pressure from severe spinal injuries he sustained on the gridiron. Although he is fighting the NFL's system of awarding disability benefits to former players, he proudly wears the Super Bowl ring he earned with the Oakland Raiders in 1981. Pear played college football at the University of Washington. .
Under The Needle: Meet Vince Lombardi, Seahawks fan
Escaping family history can be tough. Ask a Kennedy, a Mob scion, a Shakespearean character: That accident of birth can define (or dog) a person from cradle to grave. One Seattle attorney knows this better than most. That man, a 41-year-old Seahawks fan, will be rooting for the home team Saturday against the Green Bay Packers. Nothing crazy about that. Except this. His name is Vince Lombardi. He is the grandson of a man more associated with Green Bay Packers than anyone else. More than Bart Starr. More than Brett Favre. There is a street in Green Bay named after his Hall of Fame grandfather. A statue of the fedora-capped man stands like a sentinel in front of the stadium, Lambeau Field. For chrissakes, the NFL championship trophy, the league's highest award, is named after Coach Lombardi, almost entirely for what he did as a Packers' coach and general manager.
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