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...friend-of-the-court essay written to advance my cause, director Kevin Smith argued that hockey has "Heroes! Villains! Costumes! Masks! Fights! It's a comic book come to life ... at any moment, someone might try to punch someone else in the face!" Oddly, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was less effusive. When I asked him to sell his sport, he pointed out, "The players all grow playoff beards. It's their commitment to the cause, the bond of the team." But Bettman did add that anyone who watches "Washington play Pittsburgh and sees Ovechkin play Crosby" will catch hockey fever...
...other athletes and always talk about "Getting it done" with "heart" and "team effort" and "character." • Whole wordless epics unfold with every shift, as we wait to see how X will retaliate for Y's behavior in the last period. • At any moment, someone might try to punch someone else in the face. I know that's not the sentiment the NHL wants to promote, but it's a big part of the equation. You can't get it in baseball, basketball or football, and yet that's rarely trumpeted in the marketing. Hockey is a graceful...
...courtliness of the local soccer team, on those "slow Saturdays, when football like life was still played in black and white, and in shorts as long as underwear, when it was still not venal, when sportsmen and -women knew how to win and lose with grace and never to punch the air in victory." Or perhaps it was the strong bodies of the sportsmen that transfixed the young Terry. He realized he was different when he watched professional wrestling - or rather, the wrestlers: "O save me from those dark desires which thrill and compel: the world, the flesh...
Elizabeth C. Ahern's favorite thing about being a sophomore: "Punch events!" No shame, this...
Dorm: Canaday Hometown: San Diego, CA Relationship status: Single Three words that describe you: Outgoing, fun, ambitious Hottest trait: My eyes? Claim to Harvard fame: I know every word to every single Weezy rap. Even the mixtapes. Best part about becoming a sophomore: Punch events! Fastest way to your heart: I love a guy that can grill. What you miss most from the ‘90s: Alt rock—Third Eye Blind, Goo Goo Dolls, Oasis. Nothing compares. Your Gossip Girl crush: Chuck. Every girl loves...