Jim Smith
Jim Smith
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Snowboarding is my passion. When my pro career was winding down, I didn't feel done by any means. I still loved riding and I was still out there a bunch. The transfer to coaching and to being out there with kids was natural.
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Following a comprehensive, top-to-bottom review of the 2003 season with our ownership group, we are pleased to announce that Greg and Robert will be Crew coaches for the 2004 season. We continue to believe that they are well-suited to lead the Columbus Crew and provide us the greatest opportunity to succeed at this time.
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I've never experienced anything close to this in 15 years. I didn't get a chance to coach this team. I was just putting out fires all year. We never had the opportunity to grow.
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Scot leaves with our blessing and we'd like to thank him for his efforts during his short time with us. He'd had this offer to go to New Zealand and it was a big step to take but he wants to carry on playing as long as he can before he turns to coaching and he felt this was the right move. We wish him well.
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It has been well documented that we experienced an unlikely succession of setbacks during a disappointing 2003 campaign, but neither the coaches nor the players ever gave up. We look forward to bigger and better things in 2004.
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He wants to carry on playing as long as he can before he turns to coaching and he felt this was the right move.
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The booths themselves started to disappear in 1990. They were an absolute maintenance nightmare.
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The administration needs to run the city like a business. We're a $35 million corporation ... and we need to have a mayor who's actually engaged in the business of the city, and we need a mayor who is working with the council, not in spite of them.
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On a Tuesday night, two struggling teams, you've got a packed gym. You don't get that many other places in the county. Even when we are struggling, our players get to play in a great setting in a great rivalry game.
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The consensus view is it is a net benefit to the country.
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The minute a politician tells people to conserve, it creates a panic. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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We just played hard and you can't give to anything else except for the kids and their heart. We started getting some open looks and then making threes.
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We weren't mentally ready to play. We did not play well defensively, that's the bottom line.
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We will not stand by and let this happen without a fight,