Word: unselfishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...captain Beth Zotter moved to the midfield from her natural position of forward in the middle of the season, sacrificing her scoring numbers for the good of the team. Zotter epitomized the unselfish play of the senior class...
Adams, though, has some big skates to fill. He succeeds one of the better Harvard generals in recent years, defenseman Jeremiah McCarthy. McCarthy established the model for unselfish play, moving up to the wing mid-year when injuries left the forwards depleted...
...that the record was an in-house arrangement to which the team's family of players, coaches, fans and the previous record holder had all supported, and that therefore no one else should be concerned. Before her career-ending injury, Sales was a great player and, more importantly, an unselfish player who had sat out large portions of games to give her teammates more opportunity. No harm, no foul...
...there are still has some issues to deal with before women's sports can complete the journey from cute to compelling. They'll figure it out. Even Sales, a superb, unselfish athlete, instinctively knows that her basket was empty because in lacking truth, it lacked beauty. "I think it would have been a lot better if I was playing," she says. "I wasn't sure at first. But Coach said it was a gift from him to me." Maybe women's sports don't need gifts from men. After all, the last time a basketball story made the front page...
...Could the reasons be unselfish? "We don't want to sell," Huizenga said recently. "We think the reason we should sell is to remove ourselves from the process and hopefully . . . then South Florida may build a new baseball park." The equation, though, probably included the $34 million Huizenga says the team lost last year, due mainly to costly free-agent signings...