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Nick Sweeney, the burly Irishman with the scars on his knee and memories of a back brace etched in his brain, uncoiled at the Heptagonal Championships on May 4 in Princeton, N.J. for a stunning 189'8" toss...
...When the Irishman matriculated at Harvard in 1987, he was already viewed as a top prospect. He joined the Crimson because he shared a coach with then-Captain James Russell, who threw the hammer...
...remembers always seeing Sweeney in the training room. For the entire academic year, the Irishman had to wear a back brace which rose all the way up to his armpits...
...were nine: six British, an Irishman, an Australian and me. We all lived in adjacent apartments...
...always. We had some bad arguments. Often we turned on those who created noise. Two of our group, the Australian and the Irishman, took way too many risks. After a few months they acquired a hero complex. They wanted to make trips out of the building. The rest of us protested that it would draw too much attention. Imad was very much opposed. After several weeks, the two of them insisted. So we made them sign a paper saying they could not return. They left and somehow got to other houses...