Word: jock
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...your Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) may well be out the door and around the corner--assuming the office is even open. And when it's finally your turn at the counter, expect to pay more for that really bad mug shot taken by an especially grouchy DMV jock who has just been told not to plan on any pay raises before the kids leave home. You can only hope the experience doesn't leave you with an ulcer, because if you're on any kind of health-care assistance, you may find that you no longer qualify. Even...
...Crimson’s starting point guard from almost the moment he arrived on campus, Prasse-Freeman has rarely fit any stereotypes about athletes. For one thing, he barely considers himself a jock...
...more than 40 films on his resume.) Then came the 1990s, when cocaine and a string of forgettable movies derailed his career. But these days he's very much back in play. Earlier this year he starred in The Rookie, a hit baseball drama about an aging jock with one last chance to join the major leagues. It was quintessential Quaid: a chance to show off his body (kept as trim as a 20-year-old's with yoga, weight training and lucky genetic wiring) and a handsome face that's grown craggier but gentler after more than two decades...
Unlike any number of top jock schools, Notre Dame has always had a university its football team could be proud of. Yet football has forever defined the university. Without those pigskin Saturdays in South Bend, Ind., Notre Dame might be just another very nice Catholic school, a rural Villanova...
...jock bashers and admissions pundits, you of the stereotypes and derision, are you catching any of this? You’re not the only ones who realize that there’s life after Harvard football even before there’s life after Harvard football. Black’s living it up, occupying his time with the Owl, the Ski Club, the Sierra Student Coalition, class and, yes, IM football. Harrington, now a senior, was a class marshal finalist and is the heart and soul of the Eliot House Grill. Wahlberg, also a senior, got his Ivy League championship...