Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explains why mauled Aggies being carried away on stretchers from the collapsed bonfire repeatedly told reporters that they wanted the school to continue the tradition. To non-Aggies, the notion of using 7,000 trees and 125,000 man-hours to build a 55-foot bonfire for a football game is ludicrous, if not downright insane. But to Aggies, the bonfire represents the whole reason why they are at Texas A&M. Tradition is the very essence of Aggiedom...
Though many Aggies would prefer that the bonfire tradition continue unchanged, no pre-football-game ritual is worth 12 lives and 27 hospitalizations. For Texas A&M to perpetuate the tradition as it is now would be unwise and irresponsible. Instead, the school should limit the size and height of the bonfire and hire more outside professionals to supervise and direct its construction. A 5-and-a-half-story bonfire is an excessive, unnecessary waste of time and natural resources. Furthermore, college students with no outside construction experience should not be entrusted with the execution of such a gargantuan building...
...Rebounding and defense lost the game," Clemente said. "If we don't do those things, we're not gonna win the game. That's the kind of team Marist is, they put a lot of athletes and slashers on the floor, their guards crash the boards, and we didn't get bodies on them...
Although Vale eventually missed two free throws, the sequence allowed Marist to run the clock down to 1:30, almost a minute of critical late-game time. The Red Foxes scored 19 points off offensive rebounds on the night...
...they seem to have fun with even the more commonplace orders. In one corner of the small room, Fontecchio dusts snow off of a heap of finished carvings. He reveals two kissing swans, a snowman and a New England Patriots helmet for an upcoming pre-game party in Foxboro...