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...bigger than life. He had to be bigger than the Brooklyn teammates who got up a petition to keep him off the ball club, bigger than the pitchers who threw at him or the base runners who dug their spikes into his shin, bigger than the bench jockeys who hollered for him to carry their bags and shine their shoes, bigger than the so-called fans who mocked him with mops on their heads and wrote him death threats...
...Ewing first burst onto the Harvard basketball scene as an active, shot-blocking 6'10 sophomore as the first man off the bench to reinforce then-seniors Chris Grancio and Kyle Snowden. Ewing struggled at time to step into a leading role as an upperclassman, but after Fisher's illness forced him into the starting role Ewing played with aggression and intelligence...
...just caught and shot, with no hesitation and no doubts. Swish! And the bench went crazy. And Maples Pavilion fell silent. And Harvard slew the beast...
...With five minutes remaining in the game, the fleet Engineers skated circles around the Crimson. RPI's Brad Tapper bowled over Prestifilippo, sparking Captain Craig Adams to come charging off the bench for a rare ECAC fight...
...competitiveness and overall level ofplay when Miller entered the program, she spenther first year at Harvard playing from the bench.However, Delaney Smith says the experience was aright of passage that Miller skipped through withease, playing her role to the team's overalladvantage and leaving the bench behind as asophomore...