ADVISORY/Photo of JOHN ROCKER on cover of Aug. 7 issue is available on BW PhotoWire/AP PhotoExpress, NewsCom, PressLink and Business Wire's Web Site.Photo/Business/Sports Editors ADVISORY... --(BW SportsWire) The photo is BW1 on AP PhotoExpress. The photo is on Business Wire's Web Site at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.072600/bw1 Photo caption reads: NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- July 26, 2000 - ESPN THE MAGAZINE ESPN The Magazine is a bi-weekly sports magazine published by the ESPN sports network in New Britain, CT in the United States. The first issue was published on March 11, 1998. EXAMINES THE EXTREME SIDE OF ATHLETES - LIKE BRAVES CLOSER JOHN ROCKER - WHOSE SCORCHED-EARTH TEMPERAMENT FUELS THEIR MOTIVATIONAL FIRE -- ESPN The Magazine examines the dark places athletes go to motivate themselves, noting that two positions in sports - baseball's closer and football's linebacker - particularly use this type of anger-focused motivation to perform. Perhaps no better example is Atlanta Brave John Rocker, whose high-strung, short-tempered personality has him on a borderline borderline /bor·der·line/ (-lin) of a phenomenon, straddling the dividing line between two categories. borderline between control and out of control. Rocker is on the cover of The Magazine's Aug. 7 issue, on sale now. ESPN The Magazine is a provocative and innovative sports publication. Full of insight, analysis, impact and wit, the oversized o·ver·size n. 1. A size that is larger than usual. 2. An oversize article or object. adj. o·ver·size also o·ver·sized Larger in size than usual or necessary. biweekly looks ahead to give fans a unique perspective on the world of sports. Photo illustration by Franco Casas and Ezra Shaw. (Business Wire photo) CONTACT: Kim Shapiro, 212/515-1110 or Brian Dailey, 212/515-1108. |
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