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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Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
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The pitch has been in a bad way all season and hasn't had time to recover. It hasn't helped us.
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When you are describing A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things With a sort of mental squint
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We have seen a narrowing of the purpose of the newspaper in the eyes of its owner. Under the old local owners, a newspaper's capacity for making money was only part of its value. Today, it is everything.
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We want to stop the run first and then force them into a passing game. I think that's what we did two years ago when we went up there in the rain. We stopped FSU tailback Greg Jones for 15 yards on 13 carries. That just lets you tee off on the quarterback.
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We want the hospital to continue to look diligently for cost-saving measures.
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We've seen in the past that he can make it through the week without a lot of preparation and still play. We'll protect him this week.
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The demand for coal led us to make a conscious decision to place coal cars at the very heart of our business.