Word: gridiron
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...treat our athletes as if they were soldiers, marching into battle every week, each gridiron contest equated with life and death. But such hyperbole pales in comparison to lives of the soldiers—athletes themselves—who die in service of our country...
...stories stood out for their juicy barroom-vignette style. Full of violence, sex and drugs, nearly all of them could begin, "I remember one time ?" Put into rough chronological order, starting from his childhood, the collection slowly adds up to a portrait of a rebellious baby boomer - from angry gridiron jock to drugged-out longhair, and into mellowed middle...
While football coach Tim Murphy told The Crimson in an interview earlier this month that O’Hagan had decided to focus his efforts to the gridiron, Harvard baseball coach Joe Walsh couldn’t deny when pressed that he would love to have O’Hagan try out for the baseball team as well...
Confronted with the choice between a full-ride athletic scholarship at perennial national title-contender Nebraska and Division I-AA, non-playoff-attending Harvard, Copple decided that he ought to get more out of college than gridiron glory...
...about the wild ride for Time.com. Some readers got a kick out of the ferociously biased account; some felt I was just another lame, pathetic loser. In any event, when I saw the kid in the Brady shirt and was reminded of our recent New England triumph on the gridiron, I jumped to the fact that pitchers and catchers were even now reporting to Florida and how the Sox look so very strong this season. And, well, I thought: Hey, Disney World During School Vacation Week is a kind of iconic, All American topic like Sox-v-Yankees, and perhaps...