Coughlin said the important element of a bye week was for sore players like Jacobs to get healthier and for everyone to realize how opposing scouts and coaches perceive them.
Aztec Coach Smokey Gaines said SDSU will not practice until Wednesday or Thursday, a decision that was welcomed by his tired and sore players.
She did not want U.S. coaches to think of her as a washed-up, sore-elbowed player when petitioning for a chance to try out this summer.
Snow's right ankle was sore, though both players planned to be in the lineup Wednesday for Game 2. For Philadelphia, the Eastern Conference's top-seeded team, the coaches and players hope Game 2 will be dramatically different.
When this playoff heirloom tonight was over, Allen Iverson spoke of going through gantlets, grueling games in which sore and tired players feel more like dropping to the floor than persevering through the pain.
For now, all eyes are on one transcendent player, his sore elbow and his dubious legacy.
Where is my teammate?' " Mr. Barringer, 61, is a lawyer with his own practice in San Francisco, a long-distance runner (with sore knees), a bass player and a divorced father of three who lives on a hilltop in Oakland, Calif.
"The players are sore but they should feel proud, we've had a brilliant season," said Cooper.
Noroviruses, flu viruses, the rhino and corona viruses that cause the common cold, the herpes virus that causes the cold sore, all are active players in the wheezing ambient pleurisy of January.
That you wouldn't imagine that man to be Peter Crouch might be a sore point for some players.
