But before the news cycle turns to other momentous matters, such as the search for his successor, let's get something straight: This man is the best coach who ever lived.

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Fifty-four years ago today, Ernest Hemingway wrote his editor at Scribner's that The Old Man and the Sea was the best he could write ever.

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"Oh man one hour till the movie and its going to be the best BIRTHDAY ever, " he wrote on Twitter.

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