Word: hometown
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...goal is to be the best player in the business. I have a personal chef that prepares all my meals. I work out, and drink my Myoplex shake [made by EAS, a sports nutrition company]. This summer, I got together with a bunch of receivers [in Minneapolis, Fitzgerald's hometown] to go out there and work. We invited teachers out there, [Hall of Fame receiver] Cris Carter and Jerry Rice, to teach us the nuances...
...Oshima '10, the Harvard Self Defense Club began as the Harvard Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Club, an underground movement for MMA enthusiasts and gym-rats alike. Eggers, who coaches Muay Thai and has competed in Hapkido in South Korea, began training intensely with Oshima, who coaches Judo in his hometown of Somerville, MA and has won two national championships...
...spent a day with Jones in Oakland, Calif., his adopted hometown, back in November 2007, just as his star was beginning to rise. A Yale Law School graduate who, like Barack Obama, turned his back on a corporate paycheck and returned to work in his community, Jones founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in 1996, initially focusing on police brutality and prison reform. By the time I met him, Jones had shifted his attention to the environment - but not out of an overwhelming desire to save polar bears on melting icebergs or prevent the rainforest from burning...
...treatment of and expectations from athletes may also have changed. Last year’s Louisiana State University starting quarterback, Andrew Hatch, will be returning to Harvard. I remember sitting in the newly opened Lamont Library and noticing with surprise someone from my hometown whom I had not previously considered likely to be admitted. He was approached by an assistant football coach and asked why he was not coming to practice. He stated simply that he was too busy doing schoolwork...
...Sullivan's theater to see the Beatles) or Love Field (Diane Lane as a JFK fan in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963). Lee's film is screenwriter-producer James Schamus' adaptation of Elliot Tiber's reminiscence about his small but crucial role in bringing the mammoth concert to his hometown...