"If my brother played basketball, he'd have five fouls in the first quarter, " Toney Douglas said.
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One of Penny's high school coaches, Michael Toney, had talked with Penny throughout his NBA career.
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That was in the days when Toney Douglas, Iman Shumpert and Mike Bibby couldn't run the offense.
Anthony matched the Knicks' record for 3-pointers held by John Starks, Latrell Sprewell (twice) and Toney Douglas.
"He could've said 'I'm a multimillionaire' " and never returned, Coach Toney said.
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"He said, 'I haven't been home in 14 years, ' " Coach Toney recalled.
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These days, Unigo shares space in a Park Avenue office building with toney New York lawyers and marketing firms.
It's a typical upscale American shopping district, dotted with toney bistros and boutiques.
At the time he finally scored, he was outscored in the game by Toney Douglas and Landry Fields, among others.
The discovery of pieces of a broken Toney Penna six-iron led investigators quickly to the home of Rushton Skakel Sr.
He had arrived in the toney suburb of San Marino in the early 1980s using the name Chichester and befriending wealthy residents.
He made superb fighters like Bernard Hopkins and James Toney look ordinary.
"I'll leave that for historians and other people to judge, " said former Gov. Toney Anaya, a Democrat who ran a close race against Domenici in 1978.
Role players taking lots of shots didn't work out too well on Thursday, with Landry Fields and Toney Douglas making four of their combined 15 shots.
"Only ideas with obvious returns get resources, " says Toney.
Hipsters favor The Drake on Queen West with its art-house vibe and bustling bar scene, while the hushed, clubby Windsor Arms, just steps from the toney boutiques of Bloor Street, draws A-list celebs.
Laurence Toney was running Ebay's collectibles category in 2005 and tried to push through a plan to let fans of collectibles display their stuff free of charge on Ebay and then chat and post comments.
They would match the elite front court of Chandler, Stoudemire and Anthony with a C-list guard duo of Landry Fields and, for now, Toney Douglas, since Chauncey Billups would have to be jettisoned for salary-cap purposes.
New York Knicks guard Toney Douglas, whose brother Harry plays wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons, said he and his brother are similar athletes but that Toney prefers the "mellow" sport of basketball while his brother likes contact.
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Coach Toney told him the younger generation could benefit from his guidance -- that the Memphis ghetto eats up so many youngsters that it sometimes feels, as mentors, as if they're bailing the ocean, that they need guys of Penny's stature to return home.
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But there was the small matter of 12 other players, such as Josh Harrellson and Toney Douglas coming up short and making it apparent so early in the season that on most nights, the Knicks' stars will need to do nearly all the work.
He lost it again to James Toney by unanimous decision in April 2005 but the result was rescinded after Toney tested positive for a banned substance and Ruiz retained the belt as the fight went down as a no contest, only for him to lose it for the final time to Nikolay Valuev eight months later.
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