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Beano Cook
(1 Sep 1931 - 11 Oct 2012)
American sports commentator whose nickname was received as a youth, given by a new neighbour, after moving from Boston (known as Beantown). After an early career as a sports publicist, he joined the ESPN cable network in 1986 as a commentator. He is a historian of college football.
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Science Quotes by Beano Cook (2 quotes)
I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century.
— Beano Cook
Football analyst, quoted in Sport (1985). In Julia Vitullo-Martin and J. Robert Moskin, The Executive's Book of Quotations (2002), 148.
You only have to bat 1.000 in two things—flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.
— Beano Cook
TV programme, SportsCenter (1987). In The Quotable ESPN? (1998), 28.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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