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...you’re a new coach being brought in to revitalize a program that has run stagnant in recent years...
...York Yankees manager Joe Girardi (I’m not bitter). You’re Harvard men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker, whose team looked great after an amazing upset win over Michigan early on but then sputtered its way to an 8-22 overall record and a three-way tie at the bottom of the Ivy League standings last season...
...want goals,” Sheeleigh said. “[Baskind] came out of nowhere to put it in.” Both Wylie and Sheeleigh led their teams in scoring during their freshman seasons. Baskind might be well on her way to the same bragging right, but coach Ray Leone’s 2008 roster has more scoring depth than the program has seen in the past few years. If the Crimson challenges for the Ivy League title in Leone’s second year in Cambridge, it will be because these three forwards—and others?...
...John McCain visited a Manheim Central High School football practice - not to ingratiate himself with the players, who weren't even old enough to vote, but to identify himself with the gritty, down-home, lunch-bucket values of small-town football. "This is a blue-collar town," Manheim's coach said in his introduction of McCain. "We don't have a lot of flashy athletes. We don't come out with a lot of flash." But the coach explained that his team works hard, plays with discipline and comes through in the end. "A lot like John McCain," he said...
...code words of the sports world, you've probably already guessed that Manheim's players had something else in common with McCain: they were white. On the other hand, athletes who are described as "flashy" almost invariably have something in common with Barack Obama. I'm not saying the coach was trying to inject race into his discussion of flashiness. I'm saying that sometimes we talk about race even when we're not talking about race - in presidential politics as well as sports. Sports announcers have at least made an effort to shed their stereotypes; they occasionally describe black...