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...trekked to the North Pole all by yourself, only to find Admiral Peary got there five days before? The great part is that Sosa's 66 homers weren't ignored. The fans embraced his fun-loving, gracious style, and major league baseball gave him the National League MVP--over McGwire...
...institution, Harvard or any other, we risk falling into the insidious trap of believing that titular or institutional recognition is an honest and perfect assessment of worth. We risk believing that the first place graduate of Yale Law School is the best young lawyer in the country, that the MVP is the best athlete in the league, or that the filmmaker with the Academy Award made the best movie of the year...
Sure, we all know we don't believe that, not for now anyway, but over time the truth behind the title disappears and all that remains is the title itself. In a few years we are left with nothing but the class ranking, the MVP award or the Oscar. The perhaps undeserving recipient of the honor is forever referred to casually as "So-and-so, yeah, he's a brilliant lawyer, he graduated first in his class at Yale, may make a fine Supreme Court Justice." And then the title forever carries a currency that it never should have carried...
When the majority of young black males aspire to be like Mike, such that Sprewell and All-Paternity Team MVP Shawn Kemp-also a prime example of the maleducated millionaire-are elevated to the position of role model, the fate of the NBA should not and cannot generate the same ennui as that of its sports brethren...
...Crimson only scored two goals against Brown, but not because of an offensive breakdown. Harvard pelted Brown's Ali Brewer with 48 shots, 27 of which came in the third period. But Brewer, the 1998 ECAC Tournament MVP, made 46 saves en route to being named the ECAC Goaltender of the Week...