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Steve Rushin
Steve Rushin
American Journalist
Born: Sep 22, 1966
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If you own face paint and a bulb horn and you're not a circus clown, you might be uncool. Steve Rushin
You Face Own Clown Circus Horn Bulb Might Paint
What's certain is that ranking powerful people is inherently self-defeating. For starters, true potentates know who they are without being told, and they have no need to announce it. Steve Rushin
People Ranking True Powerful Self-Defeating Announce Powerful People Know Without Being Certain Inherently Who Starters Need
I'd happily cover the British Open every year until St. Andrews slides into the sea or Scotland runs out of beer, whichever happens first. Steve Rushin
Beer First Year Every British Open Slides Out Runs Open Until Cover Scotland Happens Happily Sea British
My first interview at 'SI,' I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team bus until he finally broke the ice. Those early interviews, every one of them was like a terrible first date. Steve Rushin
Silence First Every Interview Interviews Finally Those Rangers Broke Minutes Guy Date He New Like Until Terrible Five York New York Ice Bus Them Next Team Sat Early
I had started writing for 'Sports Illustrated,' which was really my dream job growing up. But the writing probably read like I was auditioning to write for 'Letterman' or '70s-era Carson. Steve Rushin
Sports Writing Job Dream Write Had Like Read Sports Illustrated Auditioning Up Which Really Growing Growing Up Letterman Illustrated Started
That's what Letterman did. He mocked everything and everyone in show business, even though he was at the top of show business. He was in it but not really of it, and that's one thing I came to love about him. I mean, you can't sit there and interview Cher and pretend you're not in show business, but he managed to pull it off somehow. Steve Rushin
Love You Business Sit Interview Everyone Everything Top Though Pretend One Thing About Somehow He Him Came Off Mocked Did Mean To Love Really Show Show Business Even Letterman Thing Pull
History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them. Steve Rushin
History About Winners Written Just Them
If Charlie Sheen is the 21st century figure most closely associated with 'Winning,' it is perhaps time to consider an alternative to victory. Steve Rushin
Time Victory Consider Charlie Charlie Sheen Winning Perhaps Most Sheen Alternative Closely Century Figure Associated
The man who consumes sports to the exclusion of all other things will never be well-rounded. Steve Rushin
Man Sports Will Other Never Consumes Exclusion Well-Rounded Who Things
At its root, 'quit' means 'to set free' - think of an acquittal in a court of law - and to quit is often to be liberated. Steve Rushin
Law Free Think Liberated Court Quit Often Root Means Set
Cinderella is older than she lets on. She's ancient. She's had work done. The Disney film was based on Charles Perreault's French story 'Cendrillon,' published in 1697. Steve Rushin
Work Older Cinderella Ancient Charles Had French She Than Done Story Disney Film Lets Based Published
Every era has its cartoon rich guys, but most of them are actual cartoons - Daddy Warbucks, Scrooge McDuck, C. Montgomery Burns. Steve Rushin
Rich Every Montgomery Cartoon Cartoons Guys Most Era Burns Them Daddy Actual
We can project just about anything we want onto NFL owners - one of them is named Arthur Blank, for heaven's sake. He's a walking Mad Lib, just waiting for us to complete him. Steve Rushin
Waiting Lib Complete Project Mad About Blank Onto He Named Him Sake Arthur Walking Owners Heaven Just Want Anything Them Us
I'm a recovering jersey wearer who can't bear to get rid of the blaze-orange Knicks warmup top that makes me look like James Carville on a highway repair crew. Steve Rushin
Me Crew Top Bear Recovering Knicks Highway Like Look Makes Repair Get James Rid Who Jersey
If you wonder why a man would shave before spending all day in his bass boat, you have never seen an angler's face projected in high-def on the JumboTron at a Classic weigh-in. Steve Rushin
Day You Man Face Seen Before Bass Spending Projected All Day Would Classic Never Shave His Wonder Boat Why
On its surface, the HBO documentary series 'Hard Knocks,' about the New York Jets' training camp, resembles another HBO series, 'The Sopranos.' Both star the stout patriarch of a New Jersey 'family' preoccupied with food, intimidation, and florid profanity. Steve Rushin
Food Family Training Intimidation About Both New Knocks Sopranos Documentary Another Surface New Jersey Camp York New York The Sopranos Hard Profanity Preoccupied Resembles Series Star Jersey Jets
All kingdoms look small through an airplane window - little dominions built on quicksand. But looking up from the ground, where most of us stand, they're rather impressive. Steve Rushin
Looking Airplane Kingdoms Window Rather Small Through Look Most Built Up Impressive Quicksand Where Little Us Stand Ground
Anyone who thinks sports are ruled by athletes need only think of American sports' most enduring tradition: Immediately after a championship, as the champagne sprays and the confetti falls, the trophy is passed not to the team captain but most often to the team owner, handed to him by his highest-ranking employee, the league commissioner. Steve Rushin
Sports Think Ruled Immediately Athletes Only Trophy League Employee Most Him Passed Tradition His Falls Handed American Commissioner Owner Often Anyone After Enduring Team Who Captain Champagne Championship Thinks Need
The most enduring Top 10 ever written wasn't written at all, but chiseled onto stone tablets and conveyed down Mount Sinai by Moses, who introduced to the world not just a set of Biblical precepts but also a new format for starting arguments: the list of 10 things. Steve Rushin
Bible World Argument Precepts Down Top Introduced Tablets Onto Written New Moses Most Also Mount Stone List Just Enduring Format Conveyed Who Ever Things Starting Set
In 1984, as a college freshman, I spent a fall weekend at a friend's house in suburban Chicago. His father worked for Beatrice Foods, a sponsor of the Chicago Marathon, and we watched that race from the finish line as a Welshman named Steve Jones set a new world marathon record. I was bewitched by the race and, especially, the clock. Steve Rushin
World Father College Finish Line Fall Spent Record Finish Foods Weekend New Sponsor Named Bewitched Steve House Freshman Line His Chicago Clock Friend New World Suburban Race Worked Marathon Watched Set
I'd never had much interest in cool cars. Steve Rushin
Car Never Had Interest Much Cool
My wife is an Olympic gold medalist, WNBA All-Star, 'Jeopardy!' champion, and Rhodes Scholarship finalist who was sung to by President Clinton, sung about by Ludacris, and serenaded on 'Sesame Street' by a chorus of Muppets. Steve Rushin
Champion Wife President President Clinton Finalist Sung All-Star About Scholarship Clinton Gold Who Chorus Jeopardy Street Muppet Olympic Sesame Olympic Gold Sesame Street
Because I'm a bald, dim-witted writer, people think I couldn't possibly be her husband, so they occasionally confuse me for someone more glamorous. At O'Hare airport, a man asked if he could take Rebecca's photo. When I reflexively stepped away, he said, 'No, no, no. I want your picture too, Andre Agassi.' Steve Rushin
Me Man People Husband Picture Confuse Think Too Airport Photo Andre Possibly Someone More Could Writer Take Glamorous He Stepped Occasionally Bald Because Said Want Asked Your Away Her
Outside Buckingham Palace, the Royal Standard flies only when the reigning monarch is in residence. Sadly, there's no similar flag outside The Woods Jupiter, which Tiger opened in the summer of 2015, spending a reported $8 million to make an upscale sports bar-and-restaurant in his image. Steve Rushin
Sports Summer Spending Similar Only Outside Opened Sadly Make Tiger His Reported Flag Jupiter Woods Which Standard Flies Monarch Reigning Palace Residence Million Image Royal
As a bald man who happens to play golf, or a golfer who happens to be bald, I'll never know the pleasures of a golf visor. Steve Rushin
Man Pleasures Never Know Bald Golf Happens Golfer Who Play Play Golf
Sam Snead had perhaps the most stylish solution to the balding golfer: A snappy fedora that became his signature style, so much so that many never knew he was tonsorially bereft. Steve Rushin
Style Bereft Signature Solution Never Had He Knew Perhaps Most Became Stylish His Snappy Sam Golfer Much Many
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