He is 80 now, living in a nursing home in Philadelphia, and just last week, as this La Salle team was knocking off Boise State and upsetting Kansas State and beating Ole Miss in the final seconds, Jim Nantz and Marv Albert kept mentioning Tom Gola again and again, talking about who he was and why he mattered.
He said a police presence mattered and he wanted to increase the number of specials and police community support officers (PCSOs) and reintroduce specialist interview teams, including part-time retired officers.
What gave him particular pleasure was the manipulation of complex relationships and dependencies to control how the art of architecture was used where he thought it mattered most.
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Ken had rigged his life so that where he actually was rarely mattered.
But what mattered was he was winning, or at least not losing.
"Everybody when they left the surgery thought their animal was the only one that mattered, " he said.
He learned to please his bosses because he understood that all that mattered was getting hits, selling millions of records and generating big profits.
It mattered not that he was in an unfamiliar number three role, having lost his place at the top of the order to Graeme Smith.
The FC Midtjylland defender ripped off his shirt and swung it around his head, prompting the inevitable booking from the referee, but that mattered little as he celebrated a historic goal for his country.
"As much as I respect his legacy and what he's done, what mattered to me was the project ahead of us, " Mr. Dixon says.
"If I was asking him to take care of something that mattered to me and he was blowing me off, that made me feel like I didn't matter, " she says.
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But the closest the First Division side came to a goal was when a powerful header from Alex Notman bounced off the crossbar - but it mattered little, because he was in an offside position.
He insisted Britain's credit rating mattered because "it demonstrates that we have to go further and faster on reducing the deficit".
He went on to insist that what mattered to people about public services was not so much the 'public' as the services themselves.
She wondered if she cared for him, if it mattered to her that tomorrow he would likely be gone for good, Shelly having obviously had enough of him.
"Here are people who are supporting me virtually, who are right there with me, and can't walk with me, but I could feel their energy, and I could feel that this mattered to them, " he said.
The ball thudded to the ground, and this much was clear: Despite Brady's three previous championships, there remains one team he has not beaten when it has mattered most, one team that can reduce the coolest quarterback of his generation to desperation and defeat.
But to Jordan it always mattered--playing good defense, he was taught at North Carolina, was what won close games, and what he always hungered for was championships, not individual honors.
But he played the superior groundstrokes and won the points that mattered to ultimately triumph.
What mattered to Alan was earning an education so that he could live up to his God-given potential.
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What he wanted was for the spotlight to be focused on the things that mattered.
Mr Powell's trip mattered, if only because (like most administration members) he travels so rarely.
He just couldn't get a putt to fall until it really mattered.
In the case of the pACC, however, what mattered was not where someone was living now, but where he or she was brought up.
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