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...treated like gods and movie stars--as long as they win. Kyle Chandler is cool and cagey as the new coach who receives the subtly menacing good wishes of the townsfolk, while a strong young cast ably inhabits the pressured lives of kids whose futures ride on a sport that is far more than a game...
...know, I know, I should toughen up. Blogging is a knockabout sport, and as a writer I'm fair game. You'd think I could just ignore Ed Champion (you can find him at edrants.com yeah, go ahead, don't all click at once), and most of the time I do. But it's harder than you'd think. Blogs reach a big audience. People read him. People link to him. Google frickin' loves Ed. Not long ago I set up a website of my own, and despite the fact that it's my website, and it deals with nothing...
...average sports fan, tennis doesn’t really land on their radar. Even ESPN.com has the sport tucked away in the “Other” section of its homepage.Last Thursday night, with the NFL season kicking off and division races in the Major Leagues intensifying, this reality was no different.But it should have been, especially here in Cambridge.One of our own, James Blake, was competing at the highest level of this unknown but beautiful game.Blake faced off against the No. 1 tennis player in the world, the incomparable Roger Federer, at the most significant stage in American...
...baroness in the House of Lords and the first Muslim front-bencher in British parliamentary history, but now Kishwer Falkner has a new honor to attach to her name: Institute of Politics (IOP) fellow. She joins five others who, according to the IOP Fellows Committee chair, sport “the most diverse backgrounds in recent memory.” The other fellows include Congressional aide James F. Flug ’60, grassroots political organizer Karen Hicks, youth service corps leader Alan A. Khazei ’83, Republican communications strategist Christina Martin, and Ambassador George E. Moose. Each...
...TAKE A BREAK Children who focus on a single sport need to take three months to recover, even if they're uninjured. The temptation to play year round is often great in sunny places like Texas and California...