Speaking at my 17-year-old son’s south suburban highschool one fresh morning about my journalism, instructing and writing profession, a pupil requested a query: “What’s your greatest project?” Students sat attentively, perched for my resolution. I think they could have anticipated me to claim considered one of my 5 books to be the paintings that has been my proudest enterprise or accomplishment. Or most likely my upward push from exhausting instances on Chicago’s West Side to transform a countrywide correspondent on the New York Times. Or most likely it used to be merely my survival in a local that consigns a long way too many to a lifetime of poverty and hardship. Or perhaps it used to be my go back
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Tiger’s comeback biggest in sports activities historical past? Not an opportunity
Tiger Woods hysteria resumes this week on the PGA Championship, within the wake of his extensively proclaimed ‘‘greatest comeback in sports history’’ final month on the Masters. I'm going to say this one time and one time solely, and I'm going to be very, very, very, very, very clear about it: It was not the best comeback in sports activities historical past. Alas, it is just the second-greatest comeback in golf historical past, perhaps the fifth-greatest comeback in sports activities historical past and possibly not among the many 25,000 biggest comebacks in human historical past. Let’s begin with golf comebacks. Tiger Woods: Marital and again issues. Goes 11 years between main titles. Ben Hogan: Near-fatal automotive accident —
Greatest UEFA Champions League comebacks
The 2018/19 semi-finals have each featured astonishing revivals from three targets down, Liverpool recovering from a 3-Zero defeat at Barcelona to win 4-Zero at Anfield earlier than Lucas Moura's second-half hat-trick introduced Tottenham again from 2-Zero behind at Ajax, and 3-Zero general, to undergo on away targets. Do both qualify as the best UEFA Champions League comeback ever?Four-goal deficit Paris Saint-Germain 4-0 BarcelonaBarcelona 6-1 Paris Saint-Germain 2016/17 spherical of 16
Petr Čech to retire: Champions League’s greatest goalkeepers
After Petr Čech's announcement that he is set to retire at the end of the season, UEFA.com takes a look at where the 36-year-old stands in the pantheon of UEFA Champions League goalkeeping greats.2012 FINAL: ČECH’S FINEST HOUR Goalkeepers: Most European Cup appearances European Cup (ECCC)/UEFA Champions League (UCL) games including qualifying; Totals in brackets is group stage to final only Appearances/player< ... UEFA.com - News
Petr Čech to retire: Champions League’s greatest ever goalkeepers
After Petr Čech's announcement that he is set to retire at the end of the season, UEFA.com takes a look at where the 36-year-old stands in the pantheon of UEFA Champions League goalkeeping greats.2012 FINAL: ČECH’S FINEST HOUR Goalkeepers: Most European Cup appearances European Cup (ECCC)/UEFA Champions League (UCL) games including qualifying; Totals in brackets is group stage to final only Appearances/player< ... UEFA.com - News