The selection of Virginia Tech over the Syracuse Orangemen (now just the "Orange") despite losing head-to-head and Syracuse having better conference and overall records was controversial.
He is not a man to lose his head over football scores.
"I hope I don't lose my head over these pieces," he said some weeks ago while still working on the series.
Taking guidance from the detectives in crime novels, he educates himself in investigative procedures, only to lose his head over the pretty college girls he interviews.
Lanky, shy and surfer-handsome, Mr. Huniford, whom everyone calls Ford, is not the sort of guy to lose his head over a glazed chintz or a ruched silk.
And certainly not a guy to lose his head over a little buzz: "They've been prone to being suicidal in the past," he said of his fellow Republicans, "so they'll do it again".
For those 40-odd years he spent in England, he kept his head down for the seven-days-a-week work in a series of crud factories and then for the shop he bought up north, where he managed to never lose his head over the racist taunts.
Hermann Hauser, the éminence grise of venture capital in Cambridge, England, did not lose his head over the internet.
I didn't lose my head over Nine or even my heart.
But have no fear, it's nothing to lose your head over... or is it?
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