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| March 18, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Chicago Tribune. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Skip Myslenski

CHICAGO _ A crunch crosses the phone line and Rick Majerus excuses himself.

"I'm munching on a celery stick," he explains, and then he chuckles. "I never thought that would be the case. Like I always told Bobby Knight, `Nothing good happens around a salad bar.' My favorite meal used to be dead animals on the grill. Now I'm there at the salad bar much too frequently."

Majerus is the Falstaffian figure who once coached Utah, which faces Boston College Friday in a first-round NCAA tournament game in Milwaukee, Majerus' home town. This is his new reality. An eternal raconteur, a possessor of grand appetites, a man who always embraced life and drank from it fully, he suffered chest pains in late January and reformed.

Majerus was Al McGuire's assistant at Marquette, the head coach at Marquette, the head coach at Ball State and the head coach at Utah for nearly 15 years. But he had heart bypass surgery in 1989, and that past and his present prompted…

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