Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ryan W. Chew...
Yale, the home team, the mighty Blue and White, takes charge of The Game in the early going. Bulldog quarterback Kelly Ryan, who turned down scholarships to bigtime colleges like Miami and is the owner of every major Yale passing record, stakes his club to a 10-7 halftime lead...
...Allan A. Ryan Jr., the attorney representing Harvard in the case, immediately objected and called the reference "the baldest sort of hearsay." Ryan said he should have had the opportunity to cross-examine the scholar, Northwestern professor Philip Kotler...
What is most distressing about Ryan, though, is the undertone of racism which he uses to praise the Celtics and downgrade the accomplishments of the NBA's other fine (predominantly Black) athletes. Last month, as a guest of the CBS Game of the Week's halftime show, Ryan was informed that a poll of NBA players would name Michael Jordan (65 percent) as the league's MVP over Boston's own Larry Bird (19 percent). In response, Ryan used this poll as evidence for his theory that the players are "too stupid to understand" their own game. Is it Black...
...best, Ryan's comment represents a condescending attitude wholly inappropriate for a person in his profession; at the other end of the spectrum is the type of racism which has terminated the careers of Al Campanis and Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder. Either way, Bob Ryan can only be an embarassment to the Institute of Politics and its educational goals. Jim E. Golen...