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...game was an honest enterprise when I was growing up, you'd be equally innocent not to worry that in the 21st century, money - especially the salaries being lavished on coaches like Saban - may extinguish the few embers of higher-education integrity still left glowing on the university gridiron. Alabama is so desperate to return to the football powerhouse days of its late demigod coach Paul "Bear" Bryant that it will pay Saban $4 million a year. That's a surreal record for college football, but it's hardly the exception today, when universities feel they have to match...
...movie makes it clear that nothing spectacular happened at Marshall. It took "The Thundering Herd" something like a decade before they consistently won more games than they lost in a season. Nobody became a famous coach or gridiron immortal in the wake of the tragedy the team endured. The film's script (by Jamie Linden) makes it clear that a few people never did buy into Lengyel's gung-ho ways, and the director (McG), for the most part keeps the rah-rah spirit in decent check. This is a nicely muted comeback story - definitely not Rocky Balboa in shoulder...
...it’s needed,” says Dawson, the Ivy League’s all-time leading rusher. “He’s one of the most reliable players.”This reliability will be missed next season on the Crimson’s gridiron, as the economics major departs eventually headed for the business world, although Fernandez hopes another team will require his talent in the short run.“I really want to keep playing football, but it’s sort of out of my hands,” Fernandez says...
...next day’s classic football tilts—the national title implications of Michigan-Ohio State or the historic tension of Harvard-Yale—the contest represents a momentous opportunity for Harvard’s basketball team to steal some of the spotlight away from the gridiron with an upset victory.“These are challenges that we need every year,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “You can’t do that in football because of the physical nature of football, but basketball you can play up that level...
...contract may await him, but at the moment, his gridiron is a dusty gym off Garden Street...