1.   Better to walk a minefield in clown shoes than to find a path through the heads of the modern coach and athlete.

2.   But finding one can be as tricky as negotiating a minefield in clown shoes.

3.   He is dressed in black shorts, a psychedelic T-shirt, clown shoes, a bow tie and a puck hat.

4.   She untied her clown shoes and replaced them with a pair of Nikes, retrieved from the bottom of a bag.

5.   Yet give them sports franchises to run, and many of them turn into stumblebums, tripping over floppy clown shoes.