Feathery, buttery fried calamari ($9) with three dipping sauces (wasabi mayonnaise, red pepper aioli and marinara) were simply great, and clams casino (eight of them for $8) sporting strips, not specks, of bacon was a close second.
In recent seasons England have also sported strips of dark blue, vivid red or grey-black "anthracite".
The gear: Workout capri sweat pants ($24), ponytail-friendly batting helmet ($27), sports strips barrettes to "take your hair out of the game" ($4).
Then again, even the most cosseted professional is only as good as his will to accept hardship, and here was the sport stripped to its essence: human beings as engines striving against all that held them back.
The "reputational recovery" defined by Dick Pound, whose strident voice broke through the sycophancy of such dismal cheerleaders as Paula Radcliffe before it faltered, to counter-intuitively excuse Coe as athletics' best hope, will be long and difficult for a sport stripped of credibility and unworthy of trust.
Aymen wore silver-framed glasses that sat crooked on his nose and sported a strip of cloth tied ninja-style about his head, upon which he'd written, "Better to die a martyr than die in your sleep".
Researchers at the time of the song's great popularity discovered that the expression was first used by Tad, the cartoonist, in his "Indoor Sports" comic strip in the Evening Journal; the assumption is that the Greek picked it up there….
After Mad, he worked in about every illustration field imaginable, drawing record album covers for Johnny Cash, creating a sports comic strip for Pro Quarterback and creating 23 TV Guide covers.
Oh, and he also managed to stir up controversy in a third sport, being stripped of his of the New Zealand national heavyweight boxing title by the NZPBA.
What happens next? A. The United States Anti-Doping Agency officially will sanction Armstrong on Friday, barring him for life from Olympic sports and stripping him of his Tour titles.
