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...Take the Great Depression of the 1930s. While attendance at U.S. baseball and football fixtures slumped, the games' following through newspapers and radio took off. Stories of gritty players overcoming adversity to triumph on the field were printed "almost ad nausea," says Crepeau. From the economic misery, heroes offered a diversion. When Joe Louis fought back to beat German Max Schmeling for the world heavyweight boxing crown in 1938, he later said, "the whole damned country was depending on me." Australia's greatest Depression heroes were a cricket player and a horse. Populated by local working class heroes, English soccer...
...Cheating betrays that following. At a time when its fans most needs their heroes, athletes and football players and racecar drivers have to understand that their responsibilities go beyond just winning a game or collecting their massive pay check. They carry our hopes. When they cheat on the field, they cheat...
...yards and two touchdowns, while running for 40 yards on 11 tries. Not bad, but not Randolph. The Crusader went 25-for-39 with 293 yards and 2 touchdowns, and ran for 41 yards on just seven carries. Looking beyond the statistics, Randolph displayed a command of the field and a confidence in his throws that Winters couldn’t match. While Winters managed the Harvard offense, Randolph directed his.But in a broader sense, Saturday’s game left Harvard with plenty of reason for optimism regarding its new quarterback. Winters proved that he could handle the starting...
...late in the final quarter.The pivotal moment in the contest came after the Harvard offense responded to a Crusader run of 20 unanswered points with a touchdown of its own. Relying on junior tailback Gino Gordon for the majority of the grunt work, the Crimson marched 67 yards down field and planted the ball in the Crusader’s endzone—bringing the score to 20-13 as Holy Cross fans with shirts declaring “God is on our side” looked on in rapt dismay. After Holy Cross went three-and-out, Harvard?...
Like Bashir director Ari Folman, Maoz served in the 1982 Israeli-Lebanon war; his film is a survivor's haunted memory of that conflict. Except for the opening and closing shots of a field of sunflowers, the entire film takes place in an Israeli tank holding four very nervous soldiers. The only view to the streets outside is through the gunsight aimed at insurgents and civilians. Which ones to shoot at? Which ones to save? Imprisoning the audience with the soldiers may be a gimmick, but it's an inspired one: the viewer wants both to stay inside - shielding them...