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...Blodgett pool. However, for the past couple of weeks, Dawson vanished from the public eye, and apparently from Harvard itself.Foregoing the cold and unpredictable Cambridge weather for somewhere slightly warmer, Dawson went to Sarasota, Florida, preparing, and hoping, to further his football career with an invitation to the NFL combine.“I spent a good amount of time training with other NFL hopefuls,” Dawson said. “I was definitely hoping for an invitation to the combine.”Unfortunately for Dawson, after weeks of training, that invitation did not come...
...long-term plan, we will see if most of the changes of the heart are in place by the time athletes arrive to college,” added Baggish. Harvard running back Clifton G. Dawson ’07, who is training for the NFL draft, said heart was the bedrock of competition. “During the course of the game, there are so many high points and low points, you need a strong heart to be able to focus and give it your all to win,” he said...
...baseball's training requirements don't even compare to pro football's. The NFL's summer sessions also last some six weeks, and teams also run mini-camps throughout the off-season. But football playbooks are like physics texts, so it's a wonder players don't need a whole semester to learn their schemes...
While playing for the Washington Redskins, Kopay says, he had an ongoing affair with teammate Jerry Smith--who died of AIDS in 1986. The former heartthrob running back insists that being honest about his sexuality cost him NFL coaching jobs. He has been a buyer at Linoleum City in Hollywood for two decades...
...Samoan Hawaiian used football to escape the "banana ghetto." Singing the national anthem before a Green Bay Packers game inspired the music career he has pursued since he left the NFL in '99. Although he officially came out in 2002, he has been with his partner for a decade, and they have adopted twins...