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Caught on the Fly.(brief notes about sports personalities)(Brief Article)
Hey, didn't you used to be an NFC Central juggernaut?
* Whispers 'round Dave Stern's league are that this extended look at a Shaq-less Lakers team conjures up a clear image: They're the Raptors in yellow and purple. Conventional wisdom is that you put a healthy Big Fella in a lineup sans you-know-who and it still wins 50. Clearly the reverse ain't too true.
* Bet your bottom bracket, the Spies say, that Arizona's hoping/puh-raying that Loren Woods snaps out of it on the Pac-10's back nine. Guy was dominating last year, but his numbers--points, boards-n-blocks--are down, down, down. Words to live by: A Serta-soft center's no way to get to Minneapolis.
* Fly hears NHL giggles at the Rangers thinking (dreaming?) they're in the playoff hunt. They're too lazy to play D, too soft to make a run and too shallow to make a meaningful deal. In short, this team's talking about playoff contenders' tail lights while a more realistic concern is Thrasher headlights.
* The Spies say M's skip Lou Piniella is worried about Pay-Rod's projected replacement, Carlos Guillen, who cut short his winter league stay because of--stop Fly if you've heard this before--a sore knee. Um, that'd be one of the two knees that've been cut on since 1998. "Given his history," admits Piniella, "it is a concern."
* Rise-n-fall of Hal Mumme's empire? For all his talents, he had 1) trouble gettin' along with folks, 2) a quick temper and 3) an ego that grew like kudzu. His U.K. staff might argue (like, the Spies ...
- COLON ROBOT AND SPY FLY SCARE SCIENCE STRAIGHT.(LIFE & LEISURE)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) August 7, 1994 700+ words
...we hope that one day scientists will develop: THE SPY FLY We found out about this thanks to alert reader Orrin...new technologies for exciting uses, such as the Spy Fly. How would the Spy Fly work? Federal Times asks us to imagine a scenario...
- New York regional titles go national; but while Spy flies high, Manhattan, inc....
- Magazine article from: Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management Garry, Michael October 1, 1988 700+ words
...regional titles go national New York City--Spy and Manhattan, inc., which focus almost...where the similarity ends. Two-year-old Spy, the current darling of the New York yuppie...Lisa Auslander, circulation manager of Spy, whose forte is the sardonic skewering...
- ADVISORY/Lost Drone Presumed Shot Down over Iraq Prompts Expert Opinion; NOVA...
- Press release article from: Business Wire December 23, 2002 700+ words
...IMMEDIATELY FOR INTERVIEWS -- PREVIEW CASSETTES OF NOVA'S SPIES THAT FLY AVAILABLE -- NOVA PRESS RELEASE AND PHOTOS AVAILABLE...IMMEDIATELY FOR INTERVIEWS -- PREVIEW CASSETTES OF NOVA'S SPIES THAT FLY AVAILABLE -- NOVA PRESS RELEASE AND PHOTOS AVAILABLE...
- Higgins' Latest Spies Fly Through Thin Air
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times HENRY KISOR March 9, 1995 700+ words
...this newspaper, is "the best of the second-raters" among spy-and-action novelists. That praise is not as faint as it...soldier and conscienceless adventurer who has been a Russian spy for years. So has his lover, Cambridge professor Tom Curry...
- Council's trail of pooper scoopers; SURVEILLANCE: Techniques devised for...
- Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) October 29, 2009 700+ words
...serious crime at least 300 times to spy on anybody from suspect fly-tippers to staff bunking off work...cases. Council officers use covert spy cameras and hang around street corners...sales to under-age people and fly-tippers. Of the cases where the...
- British police 'spies' fly home.
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) October 8, 2000 700+ words
TWO British policemen held by the Yugoslav authorities on suspicion of spying were last night heading back to the UK. Adrian Prangnell and John Yore were released after nearly 10 weeks in military detention. Mr Prangnell, a detective sergeant with the Hampshire force, and Mr Yore, a Cambridgeshire
- Pioneer spy drone flies with new avionics suite. (Pioneer Unmanned Aerial...
- Newspaper article from: Defense Daily Bender, Bryan July 9, 1997 700+ words
...officer for cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, said in a statement that a AAI/Israel Aircraft Industries Pioneer spy drone equipped with a Modular Integrated Avionics Group (MIAG) made its first flight at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in...
- China: "Impossible" to fly spy plane home.
- News wire article from: United Press International May 8, 2001 700+ words
...that flying the downed U.S. Navy spy plane home was "impossible." Chinese...Rumsfeld that he hoped the aircraft could fly back to the United States after repairs...coastline. China has insisted that the spy flights are an infringement on its sovereignty...
