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...major expenses such as team "training trips." The baseball team's spring vacation trip to California, for example, will be paid for largely as a result of the Varsity Club's fund-raising efforts. The Varsity Club also helps attract future Harvard athletes by paying for high school sportsmen who come to look at Harvard...
November in America is a time when certain sportsmen go mad for ducks and geese. The flyways are thick with, among other fowl, honkers coming down out of Canada. The season is on, and something rises in the blood of the hunter. It is a passion, remarked upon most lyrically by Ernest Hemingway, who once recalled, "That is the first thing I remember of ducks; the whistly, silk tearing sound the fast wingbeats make; just as what you remember first of geese is how slow they seem to go when they are traveling, and yet they are moving so fast...
...devoted as sportsmen are to collecting shiny gewgaws, this is the only athletic mantel piece that would be noticed at Westminster Abbey, and the thought of it cradled under the arm of Flutie, or vice versa, brings a smile. Exactly 25 Ibs. of bronze immortality, the Heisman figurine depicts a stiff-arming ballcarrier, a suggestive pose these past 49 years to a literal-minded electorate that now numbers 1,050 experts, some of whom have seen a college football game this season. Although emblematic of the best player, whatever his position, the Heisman never has exalted an interior lineman...
...participated in this festival of running and jumping were the sons and daughters of gentlefolk. Other Olympic ideals had more substance, and these endure. But the old leisure-class amateurism is dead. Not buried, unfortunately, because its rules still clutter the Olympic Games, getting in the way of sportsmen trying to make an honest living; just utterly and irredeemably dead...
...least some truth. Even athletic prospects could have played a role. In both Washington and Moscow there is speculation that Soviet Olympic Committee Chairman Marat Gramov surveyed the Soviet competitors, concluded that despite their prowess, they might not win quite so many medals as both Soviet citizens and Western sportsmen were expecting, and notified his political superiors of a possible embarrassment...