Will Carroll
Will Carroll
Will Carroll is a sportswriter specializing in the coverage of medical issues, including injuries and performance-enhancing drugs. Carroll's "Under the Knife" column appeared on Baseball Prospectus for eight years during his stint there as a senior writer, and he also contributed to the site's radio efforts as well as the Puck Prospectus spin-off site. He is the author of two books on sports-related medical topics. Carroll has no formal medical training...
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We are over the moon at the news.
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The pillars broke off and ripped through the side of the boat, and literally began tearing out the entire side of the boat where people were standing, waiting to get off, ... We all jumped from our seats and began running for our lives in the middle of all this debris, and people screaming and falling over each other.
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You make the first down, you win the football game.
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Today's announcement will address immediate needs, including the housing situation as winter approaches,
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We would have won the game right there. The decision, in my opinion, in our way of thinking, you're going for it all the time.
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We were acknowledging great effort and accomplishments. It was a great sense of pride for me. As a result of what we did, I believe some men of high character were produced.
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For what we're doing around here, every game is a championship for us. To have buildup and the great hype from our opponents at their stadiums that are going to be raucous and crazy just makes us better. It makes us stronger.
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For what it's worth historically, 9/11 was the news media's last great moment in terms of the public view. I'd be hesitant to say much more than that because we don't know how the public is reacting to this crisis -- whether there will be the same sense of unity and common cause. There was an immediate rally effect shortly after 9/11, and that rubbed off on the media.
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Glen, he's one of those players you're not really going to stop. But you can contain him to a certain amount of points and hope that he takes some bad shots. I have the utmost confidence that Julian can contain Glen Davis.
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If it's going to happen, I want it to be normal and comfortable. I don't want it to be something that's out of the ordinary and they don't know how to respond to.
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I got a letter in July saying they were going to give me a personalized 2004 World Series watch along with everyone else in the organization, ... but I really wanted a ring. I felt I deserved a ring. The so-called ambassadors who were there for a year and the grounds crew all got it. And I didn't.
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I got a chance to be myself - they fired me. They just didn't like it. Your eyes are so big, and you're floating on the energy and excitement of it. ... When you get to game day and get to that stadium, all of the dreams that you live with as a kid come to the front.
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If we make the first down, the game's over. It was a clear decision.
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If we make a first down, the game is over. We had seen what he'd done the series before. That moment flashes by in an instant. We could have sealed win. We needed to do it on on offense and we didn't. We had to stop them on defense and we couldn't.