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...final score, as reported by those who didn’t fall asleep or leave, was 9-6 in favor of the Lions. Rudd managed to make three of his five field-goal attempts on the afternoon, including one from 39 yards. For this effort, he was awarded Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week. That’s right, he wasn’t benched: he was given an award. I’d feel a lot better about this distinction if they changed the title to “Least Terrible Ivy League Special Teams Player...
...home, rather than just a place for her to lie low until the Nazis forget about her. Actors Geislerova and Cserhalmi artfully and skillfully depict their characters’ relationship as it gradually progresses from the haltingly formal to the faintly resentful to, well, a fairly strong argument in favor of arranged marriages...
...efforts in Addleboro were a form of what Kramer calls “group incident response.” In this case, NCSF associates talked to local leaders, the district’s attorney general and members of the media to try to spin the story in their favor. “People in the SM/Leather/Fetish community are being persecuted,” Kramer says. Action was necessary...
Incoherent and irrelevant tangents aside, Dawson has clearly put up the numbers so far that will make him a player in the Payton Award race. Another thing working in his favor is that the Crimson is having an outstanding year, and, like the Heisman, players on better teams are at a distinct advantage. In fact, only one player from a losing team—running back Jerry Azumah of New Hampshire, in 1998—has ever won the award, and the last five winners have all come from teams that claimed a conference or national title...
...hapless Samford squad 42-36 in overtime. If there’s a player out there that could take home the Payton Award while playing on a losing team, it’s Anthony. But, as history has shown, the odds aren’t in his favor...