Word: boosterism
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...played Zimmerman a number of times before so I knew his game pretty well,” Hochberg said. “I have been injured a little bit this year though, so it was a big confidence booster beating a guy of his caliber...
...Crimson beat the Big Red 168-74 and defeated the Big Green 148-92. The tri-meet was a confidence booster for Harvard (7-1, 6-1 EISL), which was hosting its last home meet of the regular season...
Muhammad--then named John Allen Williams--tried on his first identity in his hometown of Scotlandville, a Mississippi River community in Baton Rouge, La. In high school he was a top football player, says James Johnson, an alumnus of the school who worked with the booster club. "I remember him as a good team player." After graduating in 1978, Williams enlisted in the Louisiana Army National Guard, working as a carpenter and welder in a unit that repaired buildings. Three years later, he married his high school sweetheart, Carol Kaglear, and they had a son, Lindbergh, whom he liked...
...against Princeton last week—took another positive turn for the captain in practice this week. Harvard coach Tim Murphy, deciding he wanted to put his “11 best athletes” on the field, worked on using Fitzpatrick at wide receiver. Not exactly a confidence-booster for the plethora of young receivers waiting in the wings, but it was a novel experiment. Fitzpatrick lined up about a dozen times Saturday at both wide and slot receiver positions...
Britta Phillips: Well, most of what I was learning was about singing, about being professional and hitting the high notes. It was a great confidence booster, and it really gave me the feeling that I had made the right decision when I decided to come to New York and pursue a career in music. I didn’t really watch the show because I was out partying every night and it was on at eight in the morning, but I watch the show now with my four-year-old niece and I know she thinks the whole thing...