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...Pete immediately put me to work on a men's soccer story. The team had just returned from a tournament at UNLV (UNLV!) and the coach pumped me full of propaganda on how he thought Jason Luzak '93 should be considered an All-American (All-American!!) while we sat under the program's enormous NCAA trophies (National Semifinalists...
...then reality hit, disguised as the as-promised men's basketball team (slogan: wait 'til next year to the 92nd power). And I found out why Pete could promise the beat to me so easily. The team stunk. It always stinks, but that year it stunk real bad. The team started out 0-11 and finished 6-20, including a 100-62 loss to Division III Babson...
...What Pete didn't tell me that first day is that writing sports at Harvard is a nightmare on par with anything the Apostles could dream up in the Book of Revelations. Writers spend the majority of their waking hours running after athletes who are not always keen on sharing experiences and composing articles for a student body which is at best uninterested. (Anybody who is that interested in Harvard sports is already working here.) I've noticed that most Harvard students take their sports news in 40-point Utopia; any headline smaller than that is generally forgotten within...
...Pete never told me any of this. For this I can now thank him. If he had, he would have sent me running to a career of badgering Jeremy Knowles and the endlessly frustating Ahhchie Epps. Give me the predictable Tim Murphy and the hypersensitive Billy Cleary...
...followed Harvard sports more closely--along with fellow soldiers Tarek, Jay, Ted, Sean, Amanda, Peter, Darren and Dave than anyone not drawing a salary since I've been here. I've discovered their beauty when compared to the outside world, thanks to Pete who let me discover them on my own rather than try and hammer them into my head...