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...court as the two freshman point guards, Drew Housman and Eric Groszyk, were expected to need a gradual introduction to the rigors of running a Division I offense. That contingency plan turned out to be entirely unnecessary. Housman immediately showed that he was no conventional first-year player and, after playing well in the preseason, was named the starter for the season opener against Vermont. The rookie scored 13 points, handed out 3 assists, grabbed four rebounds, and never looked back.“I put a lot of hard work in over the summer [and] during the year...
...were not good enough for a garage. Her band’s dream was to play in the Elvis Room, where they only needed 20 minutes of music to get a gig. “We never got 20 minutes. We didn’t even have a bass player or a singer,” she says. Knitting is another passion of hers. During the past winter, Scott participated in the Olympics’ knitting competition. Knitting Olympians chose a project that was “an achievable challenge” that they began at opening ceremonies...
...pull out his yellow legal pad and we’d go to work drawing up our plan of attack. Giddy with anticipation, I’d invariably have drawn up my own lineup hours in advance during soccer season. Our league held four-quarter games, and every player had to participate in at least three. I had rather strong opinions on who should sit and when, which I never failed to share. He’d invariably nod and laugh before gently breaking the news that, no, we could not forget to invite the sub-par members...
...thing sportswriters love more than statistics, it’s proclaiming that statistics don’t tell the whole story.This makes for an easy article, by the way, especially when it’s on a topic you’ve covered to death. For a player profile, it’s practically foolproof. You rattle off the player’s statistics, catalog all their accomplishments, and then, with your reader blinded by the brilliance, denounce it all as mere numbers. You say digits can’t convey true grit, or heart, or the journey taken...
...point contests, including a 2-1 loss to Boston University and a defeat by the same score to Ivy League opponent Dartmouth. The Crimson was able to shake a ten-game losing streak with its season-ending victory versus Columbia. Connolly, selected as Harvard’s Most Improved Player, earned her first collegiate win. The Lions’ lone shot on target found its way into the net, but the Crimson took advantage of the overall inaccuracy of the Columbia offense. “It’s about putting it all out there in every effort...