Word: sports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cross country is just a silly sport compared to Reed's life," McNulty continued, "and that's all that is important now. Even if this was the biggest race of the season it's just not all that important...
Horner attributes a lot of his confidence on the field to before-game prayer meetings. He says the quiet time helps him concentrate on the team nature of the sport, so he doesn't get carried away with his individual performance. "Part of being a Christian is that that particular game is not that important in the larger scheme of things," he says...
...pitcher for the '62 Sox and forward for the Celtics during the off-season, who left the Red Sox for 68 hours, contemplating the possibility of going "to Bethlehem, Israel," to get "nearer to God." He was drunk and tired, they said. But Conley was sick of his two-sport grind, and he admitted later that "religion saved me. I became a Seventh Day Adventist. I would have been a first-class drunk. I would have blown everything. I was going pretty fast for a lot of years. So I've kind of settled down, thank heaven...
Politics in Cambridge is a team sport...
...Harvard, Field devotes much of her time to athletics--but that's nothing new. She grew up with four active brothers and has spent most of her life following every kind of sport...