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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...
...woes, nor accuse Harvard athletes of being coddled through college. Harvard athletes work harder than the average student, know better how to balance their schedules and handle various commitments and do not receive any advantages, especially compared to athletes at non-Ivy colleges. And, even at Harvard, for every jock who doesn’t do the reading, there is a stoner or a singer or a playwright who hasn’t done it either—dumb jocks are not the standard. The Harvard athlete should be praised, because unlike other students who join activities throughout high school...
...Campbell and Swann are continuing a very British tradition of urban realism that stretches from Atkinson Grimshaw's 19th century nightscapes to John Piper's records of war-torn London. Duncan Swann feels part of an "urban landscape" movement that includes people like Campbell, who mentions among his influences Jock McFadyen, Frank Auerbach and David Hepher, from earlier generations. Hepher is known for graffiti-scrawled tower blocks, McFadyen paints rundown roadside bars and sports stadiums, while Auerbach obsessively records the environs of his London studio. Swann, 33, will start a postgraduate course at London's Royal College...
Industrialist, parliamentarian, and suave football diplomat who brought the World Cup to South Korea, Chung Mong Joon wants you to know he's also a jock. Flying down to southern Cheju Island from Seoul to watch a football game a week before the Cup, Chung, 50, is leaning back in his seat and pointing to his left elbow, which he banged up playing basketball. He shifts his left shoulder: crushed bones and severed tendons in a ski-racing accident. Then there's the right knee fractured by a football tackle. Pointing to a scar on his right hand, he smiles...