That's a lot of training-table steak for Big Ten member schools, not to mention a financial cushion and an invaluable recruiting tool for the nonrevenue sports that help fill BTN airtime.
A turtle, table, or steak?
In the dining room, white linen draped the tables and steak was served on china.
Frustrated, he quit and took a job waiting tables at Steak Frites on East 16th Street in Manhattan, where he caught a break when he ran into an acquaintance who made corporate videos and who, on the spot, guaranteed him enough work so that he could hang up his apron and finish the screenplay.
Inside the Mirage Room, where the pageant took place, a few hundred people sat at large round tables eating steaks about two and a half fingers thick.
Feeling flustered, you copy your friend's order and end up with a table full of steak and chips.
For the unflappable Torre, this gimmickry was akin to knocking over a table filled with steak and lobster.
Besides table seating (pasta, steak and seafood are on the menu), you can sit at the bar or around the piano.
Now the networks' mobile newsrooms roll through the frigid streets, and Tom Brokaw takes a table at 801 Steak and Chop House, Des Moines's meatery of choice.
That's why, when the 1874 manhattan, made with Woodford Reserve bourbon, arrived at our table at BLT Steak, my mood lightened.
On the communal table at BLT Steak, which stands for "Bistro Laurent Tourondel" -- the name of the chef, not "Bacon Lettuce and Tomato" -- square vases are packed with trimmed leeks.
