You don&#39;t use a yardstick to measure grit
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ATHENS, Greece  Grit is now available in an economy size. It can be found in Carly Patterson, and in spades.
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Sterile statistics don't shield a therapist from a sense of failure.
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FOXBOROUGH -- Yesterday what was important was not what the Patriots did but what they did not do.
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A lot of consumers across the country wouldn&#39;t purchase a lawn-mower, a van, a leaf blower or a laptop without thumbing through the pages of Consumer Reports, which they consider a bible of independent assessment for thousands of products.
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Bode Miller does Bill Belichick one better. No, it's not about setting records. It's not about religiously avoiding looking past the next competition. To Miller, it's not even about winning - at least not as a primary focus.
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There aren&#39;t many walks of life in which a 379 per cent forecasting error is considered acceptable. There are virtually none in which it is treated as a mark of prudent management.
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Turnaround from record loss is not right around the corner.
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Not all the time, anyway. Moneyball author Michael Lewis says conventional wisdom creates inefficiencies.
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IRVING, Texas - Browns quarterback Jeff Garcia didn&#39;t need a complicated formula to tell him he played the worst game of his career.
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Growing profits isn't magic. It's math.
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Ashlee Simpson&#39;s crime was not the decision to use a &quot;guiding track&quot; during her performance on Saturday Night Live last weekend.
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It comes as no shock that a league filled with research institutions consulted empirical data before implementing college football&#39;s first instant replay system.
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Theirs is a golfing world without bunkers and hazards, sloping greens and Sunday pins. Only one thing matters to the professional long driver, and it's measured in yards, not strokes.
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THERE WILL be an asterisk next to Barry Bonds&#39; home-run records. It may not appear in Major League Baseball&#39;s official archives, but it will be ingrained in the public mind.
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Satchel Paige said don&#39;t look back because something might be gaining on you. Satch was a baseball pitcher, not a football coach.
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When you buy Tom Coughlin, you know what you&#39;re buying. Discipline ... some of it silly and excessive. And living his world, the his-way-or-the-highway world.
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Don&#39;t talk to the Patriots [stats, news] about making statements. Don&#39;t talk to them about their playoff seeding, winning percentage or schedule down the stretch.