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...miles, in every sense, from Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, but this improvised open-air arena in a remote town in southeastern Nigeria is where current WBC world heavyweight champion Samuel Peter first honed his jab. But while Peter may have moved on to fame and fortune, his hometown gym still lacks a ring. Its aspiring fighters share head-guards, gloves, even gum-guards, and the coach who discovered Peter still plods along in obscurity, living in a tiny one-bedroom shack behind a palm-wine bar. Indeed, Coach Ade Young knows better than most just how little glamor...
...hometown boy's boxing success has certainly stirred interest in the sport in his hometown. A recent evening finds at least two dozen aspirants eagerly gathered around Coach Young. He surveys the group, perhaps checking off their nicknames in his head: Spiritual, Empty Magazine, Horsepower, Supa, Uppa, Stockfish, My Baby. Then he blows a whistle and the training session is under...
...prepared to make the transition to college, it never occurred to me that my sports allegiances would be met with anything but support. Even the students from out of town, I reasoned, would no doubt adopt Boston teams as their secondary rooting interest after their own hometown squads. Surely you didn’t have to be from Boston to feel for the Red Sox and their mesmerizing curse storyline. Surely anyone could appreciate the Patriots, who won the way we all want to see our teams win—by doing everything smarter than the other team.Well...
...resident Amit Kumar ’08, another transplant from Yankees country. “But it became really annoying once I got to Harvard.” As Kumar notes, the “pseudo-Red Sox fans”—the ones who abandon their hometown teams or pick up a Sox-habit only after freshman move-in—are the real problem for the Crimson Yankees fan.Two weeks later, the Curse of the Bambino ended. The fifth floor of Weld Hall again provided an excellent view of the festivities...
...can’t accuse Eric T. Hansford, the fiancé of Masha O. Godina ’08, of inconsistency. Four and a half years ago, while the two were high school seniors, Hansford and Godina met up on Flagstaff Mountain, just west of their hometown of Boulder, Colo. He asked her out, and they began a relationship that lasted through their respective careers at Tufts University and Harvard. But Hansford wasn’t done with that mountain just yet. Last June, Hansford asked Godina to join him for an early-morning trip to Flagstaff...