He kept clear of folksiness in the Lutosławski – the opening was emphatic but not brash, teaming with bright energy but never gaudy.
The brash, victorious team Cone had joined in 1987 had deteriorated, and things at Shea Stadium would have to get worse before they improved.
PAGE D7 A BRASH, IMPROBABLE TEAM If the baseball playoffs started today, the feisty Tampa Bay Rays would make the postseason for the first time in their history, while well-heeled teams like the Yankees and the Detroit Tigers would not.
On this night, it appeared as if Oregon State Coach Dennis Erickson had recreated his brash championship teams from the days he coached at the University of Miami.
They were quick and long and brash, the youngest team to make the postseason.
It might have sounded brash, considering the team played in Division II as recently as 2006 (and in the N.A.I.A. before that).
And the more he scored, the more fans cheered him — not just in East Rutherford, N.J., where the Cosmos played, but wherever the brash, colorful, domineering team roamed, from Tulsa to Fort Lauderdale, from Rochester (yes, Rochester) to San Diego.
But Brooks Laich, a respected veteran grinder for the Washington Capitals, became surprisingly brash about his team's hopes of clinching a playoff berth with two games left in the regular season.
How did a stodgy University of Michigan culture react to this bold, brash and outspoken team?" Other columnists were also satisfied to learn that Rose came up with the shorts and Jackson came up with the socks.
Two weeks before the 2016 election, Bloomberg's Joshua Green and Sasha Issenberg published a story about Trump's brash, self-aggrandizing digital team.
