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...deify those men that excel at the quintessential American pastime—men who were not born into privilege, who are not trying to lord over us with their power. Men who have channeled years of hard work and discipline into the ability to be dominant in a sport we loved to play as children. This also reflects our city’s patriotic origins. As we rebelled against the aristocratic British imperial system in favor of a more egalitarian government years ago, so too do we rally around a rag-tag band of brothers that play a democratic game...
Francis, who usually bats seventh or eighth in the lineup, was moved up to the fifth sport for both games...
...Oscar De La Hoya, the most popular fighter in the world, and Floyd Mayweather Jr., boxing's best, pound for pound, awaited their fate as the judges handed in their scoring cards. But there was more to it than just the super welterweight belt: the world was judging the sport of boxing...
...Hoya vs. Mayweather won't go down as the greatest fight ever, but say this much: it had currency. What mattered for people who love boxing, who understand its history, is that for one night in May 2007 the sport recaptured the public's imagination, finding itself again in the mainstream of American culture. It was a fight for fighting, and fighting...
...brainer,” Harvard football coach Tim Murphy says of the ban. “I’ve got a 16-year old daughter who doesn’t get enough sleep, she studies all the time, she’s a three-sport athlete. If she’s getting calls at night and she’s getting 12 texts everyday that she has to respond to, you’ve got to be kidding...