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ANALYSIS: Make no mistake. Despite importing coach Guy Gadowsky from Alaska and bringing in NHL coach Ken Hitchcock as a pre-season volunteer, Princeton is still, and always will be, awful. The Tigers still lack the talent to compete for a shot at .500 at the end of the day, and will certainly finish in last yet again this year. But Princeton fans shouldn’t lose heart. If recent history is any indication, the Tigers will still be just good enough to beat Harvard...
Since his arrival at the Newell Boathouse, Buckland has been taken under the wing of Harvard heavyweight Master of Protocol Malcolm Howard, who just before his sophomore year suffered what was reported as a “pre-season off-water incident”—an assault at the hands of two members of Northeastern crew who were subsequently arrested for their actions...
Based on H.G. Bissinger’s best-selling non-fiction book of the same title, the story chronicles Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton) and his Permian Panthers’ 1988 season from the first day of pre-season to its rousing conclusion on the turf of the Astrodome some months later. Thanks in large part to their nationally recruited running back, Boobie Miles (Derek Luke), the Panthers are widely projected to return the title to Odessa...
...relenting in applying that pressure. Though some of the scenes in which he embarrasses his son with his overbearing demeanor—Charlie at one point appears out of thin air as his son fondles his girlfriend on the couch, before taping his hands to a football after a pre-season fumble—McGraw makes the father’s irrational anger and desperation surprisingly believable and all the more heartbreaking...
Whatever the reason, Harvard came out in the second half and showed that all the pre-season hype was legitimate: this team is for real...