Guard Brandon Moore, one of the veteran sages in the locker room, praised Sparano for balancing tough coaching with positive reinforcement, saying that "he understands that sometimes you have to build guys up after tough losses, bad press, growing pains, things like that".
A FEW days ago, Lexington attended a breakfast in Washington for foreign ambassadors, business types and politicians, at which Charlie Cook, the veteran political sage and forecaster, was asked about the third and final presidential debate, on foreign policy.
That is the view of Muriel Siebert, the Wall Street veteran and financial sage, former state banking superintendent of New York and founder of the Siebert Financial Corporation, a discount brokerage firm.
Not that Pearson is a sage veteran at 24, but that experience taught him that consistency is elusive and seasons can change drastically.
The curriculum is the accumulated knowledge of three sage veterans, all dissected and absorbed by a most attentive student body.
Lorna Sage, a doughty veteran of English literary life, would have been the first to appreciate the irony.
He writes as a kind of village sage, a war veteran whose tales compel passers-by to stop and listen.
An immature, accident-prone prospect, who once fell drunkenly off a balcony here, returns to the Mets 18 years after that catastrophe as a sage, even-tempered veteran, who spends as much time dispensing wisdom to young teammates as he once did making crude jokes and inadvertently sabotaging his promising career.
One championship, two finals appearances, and countless clutch shots and defensive stands later, Pierce, at 35, is considered one of the league's sage big-game veterans, a future Retired Number Celtic, a nearly certain Hall of Famer.
