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...Take the Great Depression of the 1930s. While attendance at U.S. baseball and football fixtures slumped, the games' following through newspapers and radio took off. Stories of gritty players overcoming adversity to triumph on the field were printed "almost ad nausea," says Crepeau. From the economic misery, heroes offered a diversion. When Joe Louis fought back to beat German Max Schmeling for the world heavyweight boxing crown in 1938, he later said, "the whole damned country was depending on me." Australia's greatest Depression heroes were a cricket player and a horse. Populated by local working class heroes, English soccer...
...listed at 5’11 and 190 pounds who hadn’t thrown a ball in a college game. On the other, there was senior Dominic Randolph, the Crusaders’ 6’3, 233-pound juggernaut of a quarterback, the two-time defending Patriot League Player of the Year with a cannon for an arm and implausible mobility for a man of his size.It was a lopsided matchup, one that Harvard couldn’t win, so the Crimson tried to prevent it from being the focal point of the game. For most of the game...
Sandel: He said justice was a matter of desert of honoring excellence, [music begins playing] the best flute player. And in a way, these debates, he didn’t argue about same sex marriage, in a way the question is?...
...game clock. The opening drive controlled four and a half minutes of play.A missed extra point by senior Patrick Long held Harvard’s score at six. But when the Crusader offense took over—led by three-time captain and two-time Patriot League Player of the Year Dominic Randolph—the momentum instantly shifted over to the home team. Though Holy Cross was unable to get anything done in its opening possession, Randolph showed he could pick apart the Crimson defense.“They’re a tough offense,” captain...
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