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Neither the driving rain nor the lackluster play could douse the enthusiasm at London's Wembley Stadium on Sunday, where the New York Giants edged the winless Miami Dolphins, 13-10, in the first NFL regular-season game played outside the Americas. American football has touched down across the Atlantic - and it brought its penchant for pageantry along with it. A 26-foot animatronic version of Jason Taylor, the Dolphins standout defensive end, stood sentry over the parking lot as a capacity crowd of 81,176 streamed in. Fireworks punctuated player introductions, and a pop band performed at midfield before...
Consensus: October is the best and busiest month in American sports. October brings us all the pageantry, history, and tedium of the baseball playoffs. It’s the month when the NFL and college football really start to heat up, and the contenders separate themselves from the pretenders. Finally, at month’s end, the NBA and NHL return—a friendly reminder that winter is just around the corner. The 10th month is also particularly hectic for Harvard students. Seniors are frantically hunting for jobs, juniors are jockeying for student leadership positions, sophomores are praying...
...Cornell running back Randy Barbour, who recorded 159 yards and three touchdowns on the day in a 38-31 overtime win over Brown—it did displace former Crimson great Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05, who now backs up Carson Palmer for the Cincinnati Bengals in NFL...
...patient in Room Four was a retired NFL lineman. None of the staff had ever heard of him, nor had I, but some of our patients had recognized him and were chatting him up - the buzz in the waiting room was palpable. In the glow of the football player's celebrity, our patients' usual cranky impatience - while waiting for X rays, cast changes, insurance calls, paperwork or simply their turn to be seen - had evaporated , eclipsed that afternoon by sheer delight...
...round of treatment, which had been some pills and physical therapy. They hadn't worked that well but Johnny was OK with that. He made reference to some famous football stories, and I, clueless though I was, chuckled along knowingly. That got us onto the topic of other interesting NFL hijinks, including, naturally, sideline injections, which segued to arthritis injections, which were going to be an option for him, and, oh, by the way, had I thought about using new "superslime" injections for my arthritis patients in the future...