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What is Tino Best most famous for? The title of his autobiography, Mind the Windows, suggests that Andrew Flintoffs cheeky sledge about Bests batting - he was stumped giving Ashley Giles the charge at Lords in 2004, as West Indies attempted to see out the final day of the Test for a draw - takes the prize.Then again, his 95 against England at Edgbaston in 2012 was also pretty memorable. Best briefly held the record for the highest score by a No. 11 in Tests, until Australias Ashton Agar - a number six, not a number eleven, Best grouses - waltzed his way to 98 the following summer. More recently, thanks to the serialisation of one of the chapters from his book, entitled The Playboy Lifestyle, he came to attention for his love of maidens. No, not that kind. As he writes: I was a man whore.There are many reasons to remember the name Tino la Bertram Best - not least because of that distinctive, flamboyant la Bertram in the middle, which Best claims means the greatest. Sadly his bowling is not right at the top of the list; and that really is a shame, given that, for a time at least, he was one of the quickest going around.Despite his relative lack of success at international level, it is impossible not to warm to Best and be impressed by his life story. Inspired by his uncle, the West Indies batsman Carlisle Best, and the example set by his mother and four aunts, Best overcame the apparent disadvantage of being 5ft 8in to open the bowling for Barbados - for whom he has an excellent record - and then West Indies. Capable of getting it through above 95mph, he rubbed shoulders with Brett Lee and Shoaib Akhtar in crickets fast lane.Growing up without the influence of his father, who struggled with drug addiction and never saw Best play for West Indies, he overcame rejection at the start of his career, having turned up late for a trial with Barbados Under-19s. Although he wanted to be like Uncle Carlisle - who hooked his third ball in Tests for six and scored 164 against England in Bridgetown in 1990 - Best discovered he could bowl at the sort of speed revered around the Caribbean as pace like fire.In his own, inimitable, words: I was as fast as a raccoon. Hard work in the gym, and on the army base that provided his early employment outside of cricket, meant Best was soon being talked about beyond his native island. He was, however, a Ferrari without a steering wheel, and it would not be long before he sped off course at one of the many bends in the road encountered over a 15-year career.After being called up to face Australia at the age of 21, he experienced the unique difficulties involved with representing a collection of countries under one flag. West Indies players are all from different nations, with different cultures and from different backgrounds, making team spirit harder to build. The fact that he saw Ricky Ponting dropped off his bowling by Shivnarine Chanderpaul - in the gully, where Best observes thered be no way his Barbados team-mate Sulieman Benn would have missed the chance - on his first day in Test cricket did not help. It was my first big international match and I felt lonely.There was also the expectation that came with being a quick bowler from a lineage as rich as West Indies. It was more than a year later that Best bagged his first Test wicket - Englands Graeme Thorpe, caught at long leg attempting to hook, at Sabina Park - and his first crack at international cricket seemed to bring rewards inversely proportional to the effort Best put in. People said I was the next Malcolm Marshall before Id even played a Test, he writes. I just wanted to be Tino Best. This was when Bests off-field performances overtook his impact with bat or ball for West Indies. A father himself at the age of 19, Best cheated on his childhood sweetheart and subsequently decided to enjoy the opportunities afforded by the lifestyle of an international athlete. On a tour of Australia, he was overlooked by the coach, Bennett King. But I was bowling fast - at night.It all comes across as slightly cringe-worthy, despite Bests winning smile and apparent good nature. He says hes a deeply religious man, and observes towards the books conclusion: Ive done a few things that God might not like in my time. He says he is beginning to think about settling down, which might come as a relief to those who prefer to enjoy Best bowling fast in the daytime.Bests career may have added up to 57 caps and 97 wickets for West Indies but his love for the game pours out, and he certainly left a mark - on Makhaya Ntini, who was struck by his pace as a net bowler on South Africas 2001 tour; on Flintoff, who provides the foreword to Mind the Windows; on Sachin Tendulkar, who faced Best in his final Test. Yorkshire fans will remember his lung-busting contributions, too, and there are affectionate mentions for his polar-opposites bowling partner, Steve Patterson, and former coach Martyn Moxon.Bests philosophy is summed up when he discusses missing out on what would have been a remarkable Test hundred in 2012, when he was caught trying to damage the windows again:I dont play cricket for records. I enjoy the game and want to make people happy. I want to be spectacular. I want to be awesome… Theres a place for consolidating and working round: thats cricket. But I am West Indian and I will be flamboyant. If Im on ninety nine, Ill try and hit a boundary to get to a hundred. Its just how I think the game should be played.Tino la Bertram Best wanted to be a great entertainer, and in many ways he succeeded. He should always be remembered for that.Mind the Windows: Tino Best - My Story By Tino Best and Jack Wilson John Blake Publishing 228 pages, ￡18.99 Junior Guerra Jersey . DAmigo scored twice in regulation and added the shootout winner as the Toronto Marlies edged the San Antonio Rampage 5-4 in American Hockey League action. Corey Knebel Jersey . Jason Zucker and Matt Cooke also scored for Minnesota, which has won five of six. Kuemper made five saves in the first, nine in the second, and nine in the third. 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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Entrusted with cleaning up a sport mired in sleaze and doping deceptions has proved far trickier for Sebastian Coe than the pursuit of gold on the track.Its a year since Coes misguided pronouncement that Lamine Diack, his predecessor as president of the International Association of Athletics Federation, was the spiritual leader of athletics.Disowning Diack, now discredited as the alleged architect of a doping blackmail scheme, was the easy part. Cleaning up the mess he left behind at the IAAF has proved more challenging.Coe has had to overhaul a tarnished governing body while confronting the biggest doping scandal in the sports history and persistent questions about his knowledge of the wrongdoing.The last year has sorely tested all of us, Coe said Wednesday. It has sorely tested our fans and supporters out there ... its our responsibility now to make sure we never return to what we have been dealing with.In Rio de Janeiro, Coe has looked like the standard-bearer for the anti-doping fight, standing alone in the Olympic world as the sports federation leader advocating a blanket ban on Russian athletes as punishment for the countrys state-sponsored doping scheme.Its been a really strange year, European athletics head Svein Arne Hansen told The Associated Press. Seb is a tough guy ... he has been the right man on the job, even in this extremely difficult time he has been a leader.At times that leadership has seemed shaky.The chief organizer of the 2012 London Olympics tried to tough out disapproval of his personal contract with Nike that was retained followed his election last August. The conflict of interest questions didnt go away. Three months later, with pressure growing, Coe relinquished his ambassadorial role with the sportswear giant and also announced the sports-marketing company he chairs would not tender for IAAF work during his presidency.He had what you could call a mare for three of four months after he had taken over but he has recognized that, said former British sports minister Hugh Robertson, a Coe associate, adopting a British colloquialism for a bad situation.ddddddddddddBut you expect ... to take a bit of flak and thats the way it is. Most of us wouldnt have it any other way.Much of the flak for the former Conservative Party legislator has come from a British parliamentary committee.Coe was summoned there in his first year as IAAF president to be quizzed by combative legislators. Questions were posed to Coe about his apparent lack of inquisitiveness and curiosity in asking Diack about talk of corruption in track and field while serving as an IAAF vice president.Damian Collins, the acting chairman of the culture, media and sport committee, wants Coe back to appear at another hearing to scrutinize denials that he was aware of details of a Russian doping corruption case four months before it became public in 2014. Coe maintains he never read the e-mail under question, instead forwarding it to the IAAF ethics body.There are still questions that remain unresolved, Collins said by telephone. Its been a terrible year for athletics and most of the pressure to change and most of the force to change has come from whistleblowers and WADA ... that what remains incredibly disappointing.More needs to be done to give people the confidence that international federations and the IOC will act with sufficient rigor to clean up sport.And yet to Coes allies, he has done just that by kicking all but one Russian track and field athlete out of the Rio Olympics as punishment for the countrys state-orchestrated doping program that encompassed the 2013 world championships.Coe insists that he is starting to put the IAAF back on the right track, with reforms being implemented to separate the business and sports responsibilities of the governing body while ensuring commercial backers dont walk away.We have stabilized many of the sponsors that were clearly nervous last year, Coe said. And why wouldnt they have been?---Rob Harris can be followed at www.twitter.com/RobHarris and www.facebook.com/RobHarrisReports ' ' '