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Last week we New England Patriots fans learned that Bill Belichick, our team's wildly successful head coach, cheats. Turns out that in the first game of the season, one of Belichick's assistants improperly videotaped the defensive coaches of the opposing New York Jets, trying to steal their signs. As punishment, the Pats were stripped of future draft picks and fined, as was Belichick. Across the nation, sports writers wagged their fingers. Editorials called Belichick a disgrace. And us fans? Well, when Belichick's mug appeared on the video screen just before the Pats' second game, the hometown crowd...
Last week we New England Patriots fans learned that Bill Belichick, our team's wildly successful head coach, cheats. Turns out that in the first game of the season, one of Belichick's assistants improperly videotaped the defensive coaches of the opposing New York Jets, trying to steal their signs. As punishment, the Pats were stripped of future draft picks and fined, as was Belichick. Across the nation, sports writers wagged their fingers. Editorials called Belichick a disgrace. And us fans? Well, when Belichick's mug appeared on the video screen just before the Pats' second game, the hometown crowd...
According to a 1999 study by psychologists at Murray State, a significant minority of fans - if guaranteed anonymity - would even support injuring an opposing player or coach. In 1940 the Cornell football team forfeited a victory after realizing that it had been mistakenly given an extra play. If a coach did that today, sports writers would declare him a saint. And his team's fans would boil...
...Finally, after we held our standing-room-only interviews with the players and the coach, we got set to head out. The day was done, until another writer mentioned he needed to go to the restroom, only to find it...locked...
...Harvard coach Tim Murphy stood with a more menacing look than I’d ever seen on his face, and a remark he made about wanting to “see the officials” was heard as a small crowd began to form around the Crimson football team. The players stood in a small group, fresh off their crushing 31-28 last second loss at Holy Cross. They were dejected, downtrodden. They, like Murphy, were angry...