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...they head into the 2004-2005 season, hope to bring back their rejuvenated love for the sport of hockey...
Though the giant sign-up sheet is impressive (with space for up to 75 challengers to try their luck at the sport of kings and sultans), the twin centerpieces of magic and mayhem are two elegant Beirut tables—one marked with a large crimson H, the other sprayed with graffiti art—that dominate the room. On these pitches are heroes made...
...lesson in perseverance, we turn to none other than the Red Sox. Those who would chastise me for juxtaposing the most resounding political blow of our generation with baseball, I say two things: First, sports are a good, if trite, metaphor for life; and second, fandom can teach us a lot about the human spirit. “The time will come” became a Red Sox mantra. Down and out for 86 years, millions of fans spanning generations didn’t stop cheering. Down three games to the Yankees, the Sox triumphed and went on to beat...
...coastal America know surprisingly little about what life is like for those in living in Kansas and Mississippi. NASCAR may be the biggest spectator sport in the country but most of us here at Harvard—the intellectual center of Blue America—probably couldn’t name a single driver. Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins have sold over 40 million novels on the Apocalypse, but if these two guys walked into the Coop, they’d walk in entirely unnoticed. Country albums might sell the most records every year, but if their life depended...
...sport where results are directly reliant on the physical condition of the competitor, injuries can completely cripple a team...