Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard and all football is a wonderfully competitive sport. A good football player is one that gets knocked down and gets up and fights harder," Fish says. "Football is a good game because it involves running. You use your legs all your life for walking. I'm alive at 93 and I think it's a result of football...
Products of years of organized soccer competition, the athletes coming in have more talents than those they are replacing (Landry for example has recently tied Sue St. Louis' '81 goal-scoring record), and the time when players like Ferrante can pick up the sport when they are juniors in high school, bat the ball around with their brothers, and come to star in a varsity program on the collegiate level is long past...
...wing this year; I've been a wing at every sport I've ever played. I guess my speed is one of my assets, but it's way overplayed. I'm not that fast, but out on the wing I'm supposed to blow by people...
...character's past. In them Halberstam examines this book's dominant sub-text, race. Basketball today is a Black game played (in the pros) mostly by Blacks. Halberstam's discussion of the use of basketball as a route out of the ghetto is familiar to anyone interested in the sport, but he tells it with grace. More important are his examples of how race--not racism, exactly--still shapes the professional game: Owners who demand at least a few white players; a good white who commands more pay than a good Black; players who remember the days when Blacks were...
...given that Cuccia is a tremendous athlete ("One of the best I've ever played any sport with," says Acheson. "He can do things I've never seen any quarterback do.") Holy Cross coach Rick Carter, whose team beat Harvard, 33-19, but allowed Cuccia to throw 27 times for 219 yards in his best passing display of the year, says Cuccia is "impossible to stop because he can pass, run and do so very many things to you." Others call him "the most amazing athlete I've ever seen" and "incredible to watch...