Word: kickers
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...wideout Brendan Circle is back, along with leading rusher R.C. Lagomarsino. The defense lost two first team All-Ivy cornerbacks to graduation, along with second-teamer Jake Marshall on the defensive line but returns seven starters in all. The Tigers had five field goals blocked last season; otherwise, kicker Connor Louden...
...times, says Bunce, "but it gives me confidence." So do the players - including a peerless loose-forward trio of Jerry Collins, captain Richie McCaw and Rodney So'oialo, and Dan Carter, who exemplifies the difference between a great fly-half and a fly-half who's a great kicker, like England's Jonny Wilkinson. "We have guys," says Bunce, "who can break games open...
...Clinton first used it in an address at the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty headquarters in Prague on July 4, 1996. The kicker then wasn't a call to restore American greatness abroad, but to safeguard hard-won freedoms from the Soviet incursion. "Freedom has come, and now it is up to each of us to determine what freedom will mean," she told the crowd in Prague...
...last stop of the night, Franken ends with a now perfected kicker: "And I can count on all of you?" Laughter ripples through the room. Franken chuckles too and then, as usual, goes further, deadpanning, "I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent. So thank you--it's now a moral obligation, and I'm holding you to it." The laughter is louder than ever...
...forefinger on the tip of the ball. "I pinch it like a nipple," says Detmer, who held for the Philadelphia Eagles from 2000 to 2005, and was brought back just for this year's playoffs after Eagles punter Dirk Johnson botched a late-season snap (with Detmer holding, Eagles kicker David Akers hit a 38-yard field goal with no time left to give the Eagles a 23-20 playoff victory over the New York Giants). The two most important rules for a holder: first, get those laces out, toward the goal post, so the ball flies. And second, listen...