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...February 8, 1993--men's hockey vs. Boston University in the Beanpot championship. The game predated my Crimson days, so I was planted three rows behind the Terrier bench at the old Boston Garden with my roommates. Along with Opening Day at Fenway and the Boston Marathon, the Beanpot makes the city of Boston come to a standstill...
Grit and determination epitomized the Crimson's play. For example, in the first game--after an extra long shift--Adams finally headed towards the bench completely exhausted from skating down a puck in the St. Lawrence zone. Right before he jumped onto the bench, Adams turned his head as if fighting an urge to stay on the ice for a few more seconds. Luck finally went Harvard's way as the puck bounced right onto his stick...
...Laitin says the sailing lifestyle, while exhilarating, has put pressure on him to perform. For the past three years, he has basically been on the bench, he says...
Check, check, check. Yep, they're all here, all the spy-movie conventions--right down to the hoariest of them all, two agents meeting at a park bench and identifying one another with a coded phrase. What is not present in Mission: Impossible (which, aside from the title, sound-track quotations from the theme song and self-destructing assignment tapes, has little to do with the old TV show) is a plot that logically links all these events or characters with any discernible motives beyond surviving the crisis of the moment...
When someone on Harvard coach Joe Walsh's squad hits a sacrifice fly, bunts a runner over to third, or even hits a grounder to the right side of the infield with a runner at second and less than two outs, everyone on the bench leaves the dugout and walks halfway up the first baseline to congratulate the hitter...