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...promoting his football ability, not his economics degree.“My future isn’t open ended at all,” Dawson said. “Come November when people are interviewing for Wall Street jobs, I’ll be working toward playing in the NFL. It’s going to be sole preparation for continuing to play football professionally.”Dawson faces an uphill battle in that job search. Of the 27 former Ivy players who were on NFL camp rosters, just 12 made the final 53-man, including three ex-Crimson...
...history in its favor. The Tigers edged Lafayette on the road last year and the Leopards haven’t bested an Ivy team in many months. The most impressive aspect of Princeton’s second-half comeback was its defense, which despite the loss of several fringe NFL talents from 2005, shut out the Mountain Hawks for the last 47 minutes plus. The least impressive: Quarterback Jeff Terrell’s three picks. This time, the turnovers are Princeton’s undoing.Prediction: Lafayette 20, Princeton 13 Record to Date: 4-4Against the Spread...
...average sports fan, tennis doesn’t really land on their radar. Even ESPN.com has the sport tucked away in the “Other” section of its homepage.Last Thursday night, with the NFL season kicking off and division races in the Major Leagues intensifying, this reality was no different.But it should have been, especially here in Cambridge.One of our own, James Blake, was competing at the highest level of this unknown but beautiful game.Blake faced off against the No. 1 tennis player in the world, the incomparable Roger Federer, at the most significant stage in American...
...After getting out the bulk of the news, Jobs still had more coming, from the new micro-sized iPod shuffle to redesigned earbuds to NFL season highlights on iTunes. The theatrically minded CEO, usually tight-lipped about his next big thing, even teased at a product that will launch in January, code-named iTV. As eagerly anticipated as the movie-download store itself, the iTV looks like a Mac mini, and is intended to connect to your TV set and connect wirelessly to computers to retrieve video and audio content. Other products like this have been on the market...
...installment of Ivy football picks. Now I say first hopefully, because if I’m at all decent at this, maybe they’ll let me do it every week. As if that’s not enough pressure, I didn’t re-enter my NFL betting pool and Chris Simms apparently is not a good fantasy quarterback. So this column may be all that’s left for me in this world in terms of proving my football acumen. I can already hear the grumbling: “Picking 1-AA football games? What...