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...Ballgame!” forum on Friday afternoon. The discussion, which featured Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and baseball television analyst Peter Gammons, focused on the game’s impact on race and family life. They addressed the question of how the sport has taken on a singularly influential place in the American consciousness. Robert Behn, senior lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, directed the proceedings which at times mimicked the atmosphere one might find in a ballpark—audience members wearing baseball jerseys and munching on Cracker Jacks...
Just speak to any athlete or sport fan, and they have little rituals that they have to engage in just to make sure the game goes ok. They have to wear their lucky shirts or they have to eat chicken before every baseball match, things like that. There's a number of very famous ones - John McEnroe wouldn't step on a white line, David Beckham is notoriously superstitious, Tiger Woods has to wear red on a Sunday when he plays golf...
When I was 8, I did other sports also. The one thing I would tell you is, Don't limit yourself to one sport for the rest of your younger years. It can get monotonous, and you can burn out really quick...
...from home has helped Cao find a new family in her teammates, a welcome experience after being a singles player all her life.“For all junior tennis players it’s a very individual sport—it’s a very selfish sport. You just want yourself to win and you don’t care about any other,” Cao said. “But here in college it’s more of a team sport. We want the others on the team to do just as well...
...this season after the departure of ace Shelly Madick ’08. More than halfway through the season, she’s carrying the team, and is well on her way to one of the finest rookie seasons Harvard has seen in recent history—in any sport...