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Sims’ killer instinct mentality was nurtured on the gridirons of Irving, Texas, where high school football is taken seriously...
Sims’ killer instinct mentality was nurtured on the gridirons of Irving, Texas, where high school football is taken seriously...
Harvard is not exactly a pipeline for talented Texas football players, who tend to remain in-state or in the South. So Sims’ first instinct was to look at Rice in Houston, where both football and academics were important. But after the Rice coaching staff began to focus its efforts on other talent, Sims turned to the Ivies, and Harvard in particular...
...didn't come out and play with the focus and discipline we needed on the road," Mazzoleni said. "We lacked a competitive instinct and took some unnecessary, undisciplined penalties...
...would often hear the refrain "Go see Carl." Carl Chambers, 56, worked as an elevator starter, someone who monitored the cars--and helped people if they got stuck--for 27 years at the north tower of the World Trade Center. His station was on the 78th floor, and his instinct to help kicked in when he exited the subway in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11 and saw the gray ribbons of smoke streaming from the building. "I have to go in," he said to a friend. "I know people in there. Maybe I can help." Instead he soon found himself...