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...good as Fitzpatrick coming out of college, and he plays a position with more elite players than the quarterback spot. My top Ivy League football source predicts that his name won’t be called at all this weekend, yet that hasn’t stopped the hype machine from churning out useless info about him. ESPN’s Dan Shanoff blatantly admitted that every year he tries “to find an Ivy League player to track (and boost) in the lead-up to the NFL draft.” This is followed by a brief...
Perhaps Brown’s plain-as-potatoes prose and wooden narration makes the book too Mickey Mouse for us. Or maybe the hype is just too loud. What business does such a straightforward thriller have selling so well...
...guitars give it an organic feel that never survives the brash overproduction of the rest of the album. It’s also the closest Hard-Fi comes to finding a truly catchy hook. Maybe it’s unreasonable to expect anything terribly different from the next British hype-band. It’s not unreasonable, however, to at least expect Hard-Fi to sound excited while serving us cold pizza and flat coke the morning after the new new (new) wave hit American shores. Sorry, Hard-Fi: you failed this test...
...find it slightlydisturbing that TIME didn't use its Olympic reporting to counter all the hype about how well the American athletes would do in Torino. Athletes from all over the world should get credit for their achievements. To focus so much attention on U.S. athletes instead of recognizing the top individuals in each contest is narrow-minded. I find it only fitting that some of the prominent U.S. competitors underperformed. I would have preferred a little less cheering for your home team...
...ladder was enough to end the weekend with a team victory. Wins at the top four flights—three of them in straight sets—proved to be the advantage against the Tigers. “I was a little worried after all the hype [Saturday],” Fast said, “about getting up the momentum...but everyone pulled themselves together and played outstanding.”With Princeton’s No. 1 out with a stomach virus, all the Tigers had to play up a spot on the ladder. Against regular...