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...dilemma. As I loitered in the Dunster House Common Room for the final innings of game four, surrounded by a squawking throng of simian Red Sox fans, I couldn’t decide whether I should root for a Colorado comeback, out of my usual Schadenfreude for Boston sports, or rather bite my lip and hope for a quick Sox victory so as to get the whole damn thing over with. I was leaning towards the latter; the exquisite masochism of Boston sports fans, born out of centuries of Irish-Catholic resentment and sexual privation was getting tedious; and besides...
...bewildering moment, I forgot that I attend a cosmopolitan university, whose diverse student body hails from all over the world, even regions where baseball is virtually unknown; and even, perhaps, Colorado. At that point, my rancor swerved towards the poseurs and bandwaggoners in their borrowed Red Sox raiment, hungry voyeurs for the already vicarious pleasure of sports fandom...
...final pitch wafted into Jason Varitek’s glove, into “History,” I felt myself in a mood of serenity, even reconciliation with the Red Sox franchise. I congratulated my friends who had not acted like douche-bags—after all, as a baseball fan who has never experienced the rapture of his team winning a World Series, I still have enough reverence for the game to know that it at least deserves a slap on the back. I also reflected: Perhaps this is the end of an era for Boston...
...should have been careful what I wished for. For this Second Coming is even more monstrous than the past. It is hubris, overweening obnoxious arrogance, an inversion of all that was wrong with the past. It’s hard to blame them, with the world champion Red Sox and the Olympian Patriots. Of course, no one mentions the Celtics or Bruins anymore, mummified teams of a dead divinity. But it is really swinging from one pole of narcissism to another: first the eternal victim, now the eternal champion. Boston sports radio, infesting the airwaves and our morning dining halls...
...year removed from a 5-5 campaign under Norries Wilson. Princeton, the one-loss darling of the league a year ago, is still below .500 overall after a nail-biting win over Cornell. Brown is a long way away from its title team of 2005, and the Big Red is also scuffling, having already lost three conference contests. “We’re closing the gap,” said Big Green head coach Buddy Teevens. “I don’t see the league just jumping ahead. The thing about the Ivy League is, we?...