Caballero does background checks on his customers, he told me, and he won't sell to anyone who, for example, appears in the U.S. Treasury Department's voluminous listing of "Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons," a sort of international White Pages of bad guys, maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control.
Whitlock: "Yes or no, though, you did coach a hell of a game?" Carlisle, with scrunched eyebrows: "Who is this guy?" Maintaining this focus on the court is difficult.
The new guy maintained a confident facade but also asked lots of questions, picking the brains of established trainers such as Charlie Whittingham, Laz Barrera and especially Wayne Lukas, who had also started with quarter horses.
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As tempting as it is to spend all your time thinking about this guy, maintaining a busy calendar will both keep you distracted and increase your appeal.
But when fans go beyond the bell -- and they start haranguing guys and engage in racial epithets -- then it makes it difficult for these guys to maintain their composure.
Noting hectic lifestyles and a desire for discretion, the New York-based Dr. Doris Day adds, "Guys can maintain their privacy in having the treatments.
"In terms of other things that are nibbling away at safety," he tells me, "one that hasn't been much spoken about is the fact that the guys who maintain aeroplanes, the ground staff, don't have flight-time limitations like the crews.
We challenged the guys to maintain the intensity and improve the passing because we knew we could blow them away in the second half".
