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...evening - or the morning after. For a good chunk of Monday, the lead story on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's website (titled "Oops, Same Old Brett") trounced the former Packers legend: "Joy reigns in Packerland. Brett Favre has struck out." Meanwhile, in Facebook and Twitter comments posted throughout the game, I saw Wisconsinites cheering for the Saints, then basking in the schadenfreude of Favre's familiar demise. Having gone to school in Minnesota, I also saw my old classmates, who once mocked sports media fawning over Favre, cheering the fact that they now had the three-time...
...That was the day I realized that Favre had dominated in his role as team leader to the point that he was probably the only one who could have lost the game without breaking my heart. He was the soul of the Packers, the kinetic freewheeler who so captivated his followers that you could walk into any Wisconsin grocery store at 2 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon and be the only shopper there. If there has been an identity crisis in the Midwest over the past year, it's because Brett Favre is such an indelible force of nature that...
...been for so many Vikings faithful. In the aftermath of the loss, there is an array of purple fans struggling to understand the same contradictions that haunted the green and gold: Favre was likely to blame for losing the game, but he was also the major reason they were in it to begin with. On Sunday night, a Packers fan posted on Facebook, "Feels like we're watching the Packers in overtime ..." Then there was the Vikings fan who said, "Most fun Vikings season in my 30 years of life. Work on bringing #4 back please...
With a 1-8-2 record heading into the last game of the decade, it looked like the Harvard men’s hockey team would need something or someone special to help turn its season around...
...freshman really got into gear in the new decade, scoring five goals in the past four games, the Crimson’s first unbeaten streak of the season. He scored two goals to lead Harvard to a 3-2 victory over No. 5 Yale, and then tallied two more the next game against Dartmouth. This makes Leblanc the first player to turn in back-to-back multi-goal games since Dominic Moore last performed the feat nearly seven years prior...