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Harvard also gave him unparalled preparation for Olympic competition. Not only has Athletic Director (and two-time Olympian) Bill Cleary been a staunch advocate of Crimson players going to the Olympics instead of the pros, but Harvard also plays a brand of hockey similar to that encountered in international competition...
Whether or not he adds that honor to his growing list of accomplishments, Drury remains a viable candidate for the pros. The Calgary Flames drafted him out of high school and would be more than a little pleased if he signed with them after his Team USA stint...
...years ago, a piggyback ride from saucy Sassy might have been bumpy. At its 1988 start-up, the magazine's frank material -- the pros and cons of virginity, for example -- drew the fire of the Moral Majority, and advertisers turned shy. They returned after the magazine softened its controversial profile...
Pawlowski said the Iroquois workers rounded up the cattle like pros and apologized for the trouble...
...when two players extend each other beyond the edge of what is possible. He does not report the gritty $ stretches when character rules the game's flow and the flow ruthlessly illuminates character. Bud Collins gave us such narration in his wonderfully lighthearted 1989 memoir, My Life with the Pros, and John McPhee wrote the classic tennis portraits (of Clark Graebner and Arthur Ashe) in Levels of the Game. Feinstein had the opportunity to write a book that would stand with these, but he is flat where he should be funny, and unevocative where he should sketch scenes...