True, but the midfield trinity of Leo Messi, Xavi Hernández and Andrés Iniesta who made monkeys out of Manchester United, and practically every other team they played last season, were all at Barcelona the season before, when they won nothing.
"Elsewhere, practically every other team lost at least one of their best players.
In fact, practically every player on every team views icing joints, to reduce inflammation and soreness, as being as necessary as practicing jump shot.
Practically every member of the team — the heads of State, Homeland Security, the CIA, and most especially Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and national security adviser H.R. McMaster — could fit in a Cabinet put together by, say, Hillary Clinton.
In a league where caution is seemingly written into the D.N.A. of practically every executive, and where teams obsess about every detail of their top picks' personal lives, this was unheard of — and yet exactly the kind of thing that Jones would do.
His exhortation was interpreted literally, and within a fortnight practically every member of the football team appeared in corduroy trousers.
Or that the young Rudy Giuliani (sure, he never actually played for the Yankees, but he works himself into practically every Yankee everything except the team picture) showed great courage rooting for the Yankees only a stone's throw from Ebbets Field?
The N.F.L. office loves the cap, because it levels the playing field, allowing practically any team, in any year, to win a Super Bowl, something that cannot be said about Major League Baseball or the National Basketball Association.
Practically every door handle.
Practically every character is bereaved.
