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Before, it seemed to last on a minimal scale: one botched home run call in the 1996 Orioles-Yankees ALCS here, another Troy Polamalu interception-turned-incomplete pass in the 2005 NFL playoffs there...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MAD ABOUT YOU: Zebras Making Crucial Mistakes | 10/24/2006 | See Source »

After the incompletion, Tanner turned to his teammates and celebrated by jumping into the air while hitting his chest with his hand. It’s a motion every football player from the little leagues to the NFL has made in his career without restriction...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MAD ABOUT YOU: Zebras Making Crucial Mistakes | 10/24/2006 | See Source »

...NFL pool not doing too well? Perhaps you should try your hand at predicting the 2006 midterm elections. Earlier this week, two Harvard alums launched Predict06.com, a social networking website devoted to forecasting the outcomes in the coming midterm elections by having registered users make predictions. Joseph K. Green ’05 and Andrew H. Golis ’05, who is a former Crimson columnist, created the website as an interactive platform designed to consolidate the vast amount of knowledge about the elections. “The general approach has always been to look to experts...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Website Lets Voters Predict Election | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

...like to do the same for the NFL's less than sterling record of hiring minorities for top coaching jobs. "I could be politically correct and say, No, [race] is not a barrier," Smith says. "But race will always be a part of life." The Detroit Lions invited Smith to interview for a head coaching job in 2003, when he was defensive coordinator of the St. Louis Rams, but he declined, sensing that Detroit was ready to hire someone else. "I don't believe in token interviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Chicago Loves Lovie | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...were going to let him go. I mean that took cojones, donating another 3 1/2 to four years of his life to stay in prison rather than be the one guy who gets to walk away: "Hey, fellas. I'll say hello to everybody." Pat Tillman, giving up his NFL career to fight--and die--for his country is like that for me too. But most of the political structure I get so disappointed at. We're reduced to a society that is sitting here arguing about who used the N word 30 years ago. You see grown men doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Burden of Heroes | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

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