Word: marathonic
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...captain of the U.S. marathon team in the 1936 Olympics and a special friend of Jesse Owens'. On the boat going to Germany, Jesse said to me, "I want to go up to the deck and exercise, but I don't have any shoes." So I said, "I don't think my shoes will fit you." But that didn't stop him. He tried to get a shoe on, but his foot was so large, it broke my shoe right in half. He apologized, and I got it sewed up. It cost me 50˘, and I got a souvenir...
After falling behind 2-1, the Crimson rallied to take the fourth game and the tiebreak to avenge its 3-0 February defeat with a 3-2 (30-22, 27-30, 23-30, 30-19, 15-11) marathon victory...
Even Penn and Princeton’s brief annual appearances on CBS belie the fact that they, too, are but blips on the big sports radar. If, as panelist and Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan suggested, tournament teams can be likened to different types of marathon runners, the Ivy League representative is the disciplined amateur—noble in his pursuit but stunned with a result any better than a good solid effort...
...able to prove itself beyond Harvard-Yale if its season has warranted it. They want basketball to make the NCAAs and win longer than anyone expected them to, just as Princeton did in 1998, and when they do, they don’t want to treat it as a marathon runner’s pleasant surprise. They want to do it again, top it. If players and coaches and the athletic department didn’t—if they were truly content to settle for mediocrity—they’d be pretty lousy in their respective roles...
Last night, the committee also discussed their plans to involve Cambridge residents in the search process, including a two-day marathon of interviews with a search firm in March...