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...course, still-undefeated Chris Pizzotti is the Crimson’s actual quarterback. However, with a little luck, we could have watched Appalachian State’s Armanti Edwards marshal Harvard’s offense. The Heisman dark horse was recruited by Harvard, but he ultimately decided to spurn the Crimson for the chance to play on a slightly larger stage as a Mountaineer...
...loss to Appalachian State wearing maize and blue or endured Oklahoma’s heartbreaking BCS disappointments as a student rather than as a distanced fan. (Thanks, dad, for your clairvoyance). Instead, I became a reporter at a place known far more for its Marshall Scholars (lots) than its Heisman winners (zero). I covered Harvard-Yale instead of OU-Texas, national rowing championships instead of national basketball championships. I’ve continually marveled at the accessibility of Harvard’s athletes to the student body. We eat breakfast with elite athletes and live next door to future Olympians...
...player Michael Leach, swimmer Ann Colloton, synchronized swimmer Ruth Pickett Thompson, and football players Bill Hewitt and Desmond Howard. Hewitt competed professionally for both the Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears, and entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971. Howard, currently an ESPN college football analyst, won the Heisman Trophy in 1991 and went on to play for five NFL teams over a 10 year period.Allard’s impressive athletic record places her among the best. As a valuable utility player, Allard made her home at third for the first half of her Wolverine career where...
...price to pay for postseason glory. The persistent cancerous affects of the money and power that accompany big time athletics at American universities are ever-present. Within the past two weeks, scandals involving recruiting conduct at Indiana University and $300,000 in illicit gifts allegedly received by 2005 Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush while attending the University of Southern California have seen Indiana’s coach dismissed and Bush in court. Of course, we could not omit mention of a report in Sunday’s New York Times that underscored the dangerous line Harvard must walk upon entering...
...claims of his critics are representative of the hypocrisy of “the system,” which cries foul over the degradation of amateurism while treating its athletes as a supply of indentured labor.In his speech, he criticized the mass marketing of college athletes (billboards of Heisman trophy candidates, memorabilia being sold) without any compensation for the athletes themselves. He challenged the myth of the student athlete, blasting a culture where athletes take easy classes if they even attend them at all, grade inflation is rampant, and players jump ship to the NBA the first chance they...