Word: scouts
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...rest of his freshman season was more of the same: he was assigned to scout duty, reduced to preparing the starters for real competition. Witt squeezed some playing time into a 55-7 win against Columbia in New York, but the coaching staff didn’t allow his right arm to make it into the scoring summary. During spring practices and into summer and preseason workouts, Witt started to get some more snaps, see some more reps, but it seemed somewhat in vain: two upperclassmen still stood solidly...
...never felt comfortable as a Harvard football player,” he says, “I never felt that my talents were being utilized in any way, were given any opportunity to be shown. I basically just felt that I was relegated to the scout team immediately and I thought that was unfair, [it] certainly was a misrepresentation on the part of the coaches and how they recruited me.” Furthermore, he says, “I felt like the training was a little bit ridiculous.” Witt is quick to stress that he didn?...
...improved security in the strait. Beginning in 2004, the local armed forces organized coordinated sea patrols. Each side polices its own territorial waters, but they communicate with one another on potential pirate activity, greatly enhancing the effectiveness of the patrols. In 2005, they added regular sorties of airplanes to scout the strait for pirates. The flights are undertaken by crews with nationals from the different countries so they can better share information. Intelligence gathered on pirates is also disseminated among governments, including on a Web-based network for quick and easy access. These actions, taken together, made it far more...
...vaulter for Harvard, represented Oxford in the match, and placed first in the pole vault event with a clearance of 3.50 meters. Friday’s performance not only gave the Crimson athletes a chance to hone their skills on the track, but also offered a rare opportunity to scout out their competition. Harvard will meet Yale next week, this time as opponents. “Our training is geared towards performing at our best as we go into Harvard-Yale,” Saretsky said.But for the moment, Saretsky and his team enjoyed participating in this historic event...
...there really an Adventureland? Yep. It's on Long Island, and I worked there during college. We didn't shoot the movie there, though, because we went back now to scout it out, and it just didn't look right for the '80s. It didn't have the right sort of lovely seediness, the sense that at any moment you might trip over someone's discarded needles...