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Instead, King said, he talked about everything he could think of except the future of the American merchant marine...
...Harvard men’s basketball captain Brady Merchant refused to go gentle into that good night. Long after the optimism stirred by the Crimson’s 7-2 start to the season was exposed as false hope, long after Harvard’s premature run through the Penn-Princeton gauntlet doomed the team to another year of mediocrity, long after the Pat Harvey affair signed the death note, Merchant was still raging, raging against the dying of the light...
...Dave Merchant had retired from his high school coaching job in Ohio in order to follow the final year of his son’s career. As that final season became the final month and the final month the final weekend, what the elder Merchant witnessed from the stands was no relaxed ride off into the sunset. Instead, as the season descended toward depths that made a mockery of one of the program’s most talented teams in a while, Dave Merchant’s son only burned and raved all the more...
...fate of the previous 50 years of Harvard men’s basketball gradually swallowed him up, Merchant refused to go away any way except kicking and screaming. Even when it became official that Harvey’s season had ended for academic reasons, Merchant talked bravely about the adjustments Harvard would make to hang in the race. We’ll just focus more on our defense, he said...
...truth was, losing Harvey officially made Merchant and Co. dead men walking for the remainder of the season. To think there was life after Harvey bordered on irrational. Denial, even. But if it seemed delusional, well, Merchant was playing out the twilight of his career like a man possessed anyway...