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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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.
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If someone figures out how to do that profitably and efficiently, that will change things dramatically.
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He was crushed by the whole thought of it, going through this again and all, but by the time we finished talking he had already started to turn his sights toward the goals he'll set up for himself for recovery.
born hospital
He was born in Baytown because there was no hospital in Sheldon.
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I always think, for a little California kid growing up and watching the Rose Bowl. It doesn't get any better right now. This is as much fun as you can have.
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I always love the holiday episodes, because you really get to see everybody at their best.
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He went to the hospital; he got a few stitches, a few bruises. He's shaken up.
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He went out of his way I think to reassure us that he wasn't in danger and that he was in the hotel a lot. And then he had two drivers and he had two interpreters, so he himself used to play it down,
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He taught us Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils.