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There I go dreaming again. . . . Potshots It was a magnificent display of sportsmanship for Yale to honor one of the true legends of amateur athletics in Billy Cleary. Really, the man has done it all--great player, gold medal winner, NCAA Champion coach. What would have been especially nice, though, would be to have his reaction to all the festivities. Cleary, however, refuses to talk to reporters from The Harvard Crimson. It's a shame, too, because, from all accounts, he is otherwise a genuinely good man, but one with a remarkable grudge against this paper...
...negative won't last, even as the ass-kicking reaches comical proportions. The 10 seconds of proper technique that I briefly employ sends chills up my spine. Hitting three out of 15 at a shooting stop feels like winning a gold medal. "Whoo hooo!" I yell, skiing out of the firing range "Whoo hooo!.... look at me, I'm a biaaaaaaathleeeete!" Just 10 seconds after finishing the workout my mysterious selective memory starts working its magic and all I can remember are the few brief moments when it went right. Everything else is instantly gone - the floudering, the struggle...
...course, there's something delusional in such musings, particularly when they go in the opposite direction. President Carter, for example, awarded John Wayne the Medal of Freedom as "an example of true American grit and determination," when of course Wayne had simply grown wealthy portraying such Americans onscreen...
...crown, but it meant brutal pressure for a woman named Cathy Freeman, who opened the Games by ceremonially lighting the cauldron and then, with the weight of her country upon her, came through sensationally in her footrace to become the first Aboriginal Australian ever to win an individual gold medal...
...before the male version of the 100 m. While not quite equal to his wish, the world-record holder ran a dramatic race, coming from third to catch the leaders at 60 m and then to pull away. The world's fastest man, usually brazen, cried openly during the medal ceremony...