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While a scrimmage loss to UNH is nothing to brag about, no one connected with the football program seems overly concerned with the outcome...
While a scrimmage loss to UNH is nothing to brag about, no one connected with the football program seems overly concerned with the outcome...
...calls "Bogartin'." The way he tells it, "Bogartin' is when a guy walks around like he owns the world, or acts superior or pushes other people around. I keep telling myself, 'Don't get bigheaded. Be good to the writers. Talk to the kids. Sign autographs. Don't brag. Throw a ball into the stands once in a while.' " Blue is especially careful not to appear "hot-doggish" to his teammates. When a group of airline executives asked him to appear at their banquet, he said, "Invite the rest of the team and I 'll be happy to come...
Almost as much has changed as has stayed the same since freshman year. I used to brag about how little "qualified" I had been to get into Harvard. I suppose I thought it meant somehow that I was special in some more special way than the mass of brain-specialists here; and at the same time, that I possessed none of their obnoxious wizardry. I was not like these strangers who in the harsh Lamont light took on the look of glass giraffes. Yet somehow they fondled my fancy and drove me casually on through the rainy years and plunked...
DiCara amassed a number of activities there that made him undisputed Boston champion in the brag list competition. He built up a dependable constituency and attracted other support by appearing at all the football games as head water boy dressed in purple sneakers, socks, pants, sweater, and beret...