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Stearns was Cohen’s white whale, a boy wonder who turned the team in the league’s smallest market, Milwaukee, into a perennial contender on a shoestring budget.
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Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
After the show, I was taken aside by John Skipper, who had spent most of the conference proudly parading data boy wonder Nate Silver around as ESPN’s splashy new acquisition.
—Roger Bennett, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026
Technically, the French boy wonder Jacques Henri Lartigue, who took his first picture at the age of seven, beat him by a couple of years.
—Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
Listen to this article SAN ANTONIO — Florida coach Todd Golden is college basketball’s boy wonder.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2025
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Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2026
After the show, I was taken aside by John Skipper, who had spent most of the conference proudly parading data boy wonder Nate Silver around as ESPN’s splashy new acquisition.
—Roger Bennett, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026
Technically, the French boy wonder Jacques Henri Lartigue, who took his first picture at the age of seven, beat him by a couple of years.
—Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
Listen to this article SAN ANTONIO — Florida coach Todd Golden is college basketball’s boy wonder.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2025
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“Boy wonder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boy%20wonder. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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