Word: joyful
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This is pretty sad. Others on staff tell me that part of the joy of writing sports here is the access you have to the athletes—you end up covering your friends. I missed that. Yet while the lack of any relationship with athletes is not something I’m proud of, it has profoundly impacted the way I look at Ivy League sports and the people who play them...
...ability of athletes to fail and take it isn’t some lesson in suffering. It makes the successes so much sweeter. I’ll never forget the joy that rushed through me after the men’s hockey team beat Cornell in the 2002 ECAC Championship. It was an amazing accomplishment on its own, but it would not have felt nearly so good had the team not played so terribly just a month before...
There is a joy and sincerity about Walsh that is refreshing. This is a guy who told Bill Cleary “You just made my life” when he was hired and who, ever since, has been brave enough to dream of being more than just competitive, of being the “last team standing...
...pity the people who never saw the way his smile lit up a room even more. More than anything else, De Remer the sports fiend was about joy. Scary joy, perhaps—I can remember being accosted by Dave at the Crimson one night as he revealed, with the exultant urgency of the Archangel Gabriel, some quirk in the field hockey NCAA selection criteria that no one had ever noticed. Scary joy, sometimes, but always joy. The reporting feats were superhuman. The smile was simply super... human. Long live Dave...
...couldn’t believe it.” But O’Donnell had known that she would be emotional and stood ready to dry her tears with a handkerchief he had embroidered with her initials. He proposed through a microphone for all to hear. Shedding tears of joy, Forry accepted. And the whole drama was caught on tape, sure to be replayed at the wedding this summer...