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...colors this evening are presented by Harvard cadets.” The presentation of colors is so commonplace a formality at sporting events across the country that the casual or visiting fan among the 1,537 that packed Lavietes Pavilion that night—including former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Bill Cowher, whose daughter Meghan stars for the Tigers—could be forgiven for not noting the novelty of the occasion.Friday night’s color guard, however, was the first at a Harvard athletic venue in many years. Four students in uniform marched in step to center court...
...Louis Pasteur Avenue in Boston. An officer arrived and spoke to the reporting party who stated that they left the area and upon returning discovered their silver Macintosh laptop computer and black carrying case stolen. The reporting party also stated that located in the carrying case was their black Coach wallet that contained various credit cards and $200 cash. At 7:15pm a black carrying case was located in the bathro om. The reporting party stated that the items were there and all that was missing was the laptop computer and $200 cash. The value of the laptop is unknown...
...short, they’re wrong. Having two black coaches was great, but it proved little that we didn’t already know. Anyone with any football knowledge was previously aware that these two were among the best. They’d both come within shouting distance of the big game in seasons past—Dungy had been head coach in two conference championship games prior to this year while Smith was two games away from the Super Bowl just a season...
...addition, their tangible achievements aren’t a testament to social progress—it is football, after all. The winners and losers aren’t chosen subjectively—they’re chosen on the field. And as important as the coaches are, they only have so much control over what happens between the hash marks. True, an element of advancement exists in the naming of a black coach in the first place, but those benchmarks have long been passed by Dungy and Smith (in 1996 and 2004, respectively...
...allow the Crimson to simulate more game-like situations, but it also drives his older teammates to play harder and strive for improvement.“It pushes me in practice because I see that Gil has great hands, and if I’m not pulling my side, coach can put Gil in, and he won’t miss a beat,” Fitz said. “It pushes me to be better.”While Weintraub’s skill brings the team to a new level of play, his attitude on the court...