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...once loser—and often it is an athlete from Harvard. And for the caustic sports fans who have missed out and aren’t friends with the athletes—those who thus look at Harvard athletics in the same detached manner as they would pro sports??there’s always the tendency to let them know that they didn’t do so well...
...choice was one that might have seemed unnecessary to Harvard athletes of decades past, as both Walsh and Wahlberg will testify. While Crimson history is loaded with quarterback/pitchers—most notably Milt Holt ’75, who garnered All-Ivy honors in both sports??the days in which an Ivy athlete can realistically star in two major sports have for the most part passed...
...only so much a human being can take of the “not” stuff. Images of dead bodies and bombs bursting over Baghdad may make us understand the fragility of life but they do not energize and excite us. Playing sports, watching sports, reading about sports??even gambling on sports??provides enjoyment essential in times...
...respectful silence maintained by the crowd—unknown in the world of American sports??is broken by the occasional seemingly incoherent and very British announcements. “Wicket looks a beauty,” observes the announcer. Despite the beautiful wicket, a member of the Indian team makes a slip-up on the field. However, a group of physics concentrators in the corner downplay the fumble, noting that “Even [Nobel Prize winner Richard] Feynman made mistakes...
Look, I’m not trying to convince you that girls are good at actually playing sports??like Brandi’s team won the World Cup or anything, or that a woman could compete in a PGA event against multi-ethnic cutie and millionaire Tiger Woods. Clearly, most females aren’t able to dribble a basketball or throw a perfect spiral. It’s genetic, what with our two X chromosomes lacking the sports gene carried on the Y. Those few women who can, well, who are we joking—they must...