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...WILL BE HARD TO PERPETUATE DUMB-JOCK stereotypes if universities like Duke and Stanford, among America's brainiest, keep grabbing trophies. Duke became the first team since UCLA in the early 1970s to repeat as champions in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's men's basketball tournament. A day earlier, the women's team from Stanford won its second NCAA title in three years...
...more than any other country headliner, Brooks encapsulates most of the / complexities of the baby boomers. He was raised in an Oklahoma City suburb, where he listened to Kiss and Queen, and graduated from Oklahoma State, where he was a middling jock and an advertising major. He hides his receding hairline under his Stetson, and once said, "I'd rather be like Schwarzenegger -- perfect teeth, perfect body, full head of hair." He can be a pop nostalgist who croons old Billy Joel songs, a country nostalgist who traces his lineage to the backwoodsy George Jones, or a rock nostalgist...
Stickles refuses to think of herself as a Harvard jock...
...impassioned marginalia, Morgan's long-ago reader sided with Dudley. "As I sit here, looking into the Governor Thomas Dudley Memorial Garden. I feel that history has vindicated Dudley," his faded block capitals read. "After all, the only Harvard landmark named after Winthrop is a JOCK HOUSE...
...From the punching, the fancy footwork, the exercises and the rope-jumping, I learned discipline, intensity and grace. From watching other boxers, men and women, punch, do fancy footwork, exercise and jump rope better than I can, I learned humility. From watching the accomplished boxers don headgears, put on jock straps over their shorts and spar, I set goals. And from seeing Tommy do crazy exercises (he can rock back and forth on his stomach! His stomach!) and watching him run all over the MAC for three hours screaming, "Now give 'em a hook! Yah! Yah! You're loose like...