Word: hype
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...frigid than it was just a few years ago. In 2000, when wireless mania was at its apex, everyone thought consumers were dying for high-speed networks and mobile phones that could stream video calls, download movie clips and access online game networks. Caught up in the high-tech hype, mobile carriers rushed into the future, spending a now seemingly absurd $89.5 billion on 3G licenses in Europe alone...
...incomplete,” so you might as well get every reaction in there—the phone calls from strangers late at night, the defenses tweaked by men whose sole purpose for a week is to figure out how to stop him and reactions to the hype from those around him on the gridiron and elsewhere...
...Harvard’s primary pre-Morris receiver, and has seen his protegé take an axe to his receiving records. Patterson, who worked out briefly for the NFL before winding up with a corporate job in the Walt Disney Company, never garnered the hype that surrounds Morris now, but he says that what chatter there...
...told Carl that if he needs a point of reference, I’m here, and to keep his head on,” Patterson says. “Don’t let the hype and the pressure get to you. Because it can—you see your name in a couple of magazines, read ‘Terrence Patterson’s a pro prospect,’ and you start thinking about the future.” Patterson says that his own nervousness hurt his performance late...
ESPN’s College GameDay was there. The game was featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post and USA Today. But for all the hype and media attention accorded to the showdown between Harvard and Penn last weekend at Franklin Field, there’s no mistaking that game for The Game...