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With only one athlete??junior Brent Osborne—returning from last year’s vaunted offensive line, the Crimson has some work to do up front...
...star athlete??s adrenaline promptly kicked in, and she was able to edge out a talented group of swimmers to clinch the 16th—and final—All-American spot...
...novel is narrated by Roth’s authorial alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, who examines his high school’s star athlete??a man nicknamed “the Swede” (although he, like the narrator, is Jewish). On the very first page Roth explains that the Swede gave the neighborhood the chance to “enter into a fantasy about itself and about the world.” Zuckerman explains, “Our families could forget the way things actually work and make an athletic performance the repository of all their hopes...
This year’s Winter Games have special meaning for Botterill as they take place in her home country of Canada. Though winning three Olympic medals would be any athlete??s dream, representing one’s country on home turf is particularly significant—and so far the extra pressure has paid off, with the Canadian women’s hockey team winning three decisive victories against Slovakia, Switzerland, and Sweden this past week...
...lamenting the fact that Clay’s name doesn’t draw a crowd. If anything, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the “World’s Greatest Athlete?? would have time to chat the day before the meet. And as I quickly learned, Clay is much more than even that title suggests...