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Dawkins at Stanford's helm after 11 years at Duke

By Dana O'Neil
ESPN.com

Thursday, June 5, 2008

The grass is never greener than in the eyes of a coach. And it has nothing to do with good fertilizer. Coaches are part Hollywood social climbers, part wayward gypsies. Hyperkinetic and more tightly wound than a golf ball, they chronically have one eye on the action at hand and another on a better, more lucrative, more challenging opportunity. It is why the carousel never stops spinning and U-Haul is the first number on speed dial. That has never been J ...

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