Word: starter
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...personal favorite: it's gotten so bad that during last Sunday's game against the Saints, Ford Field fans started chanting "We want Joey" at New Orleans third-string quarterback Joey Harrington, who frustrated hoards of Lions faithful during his four-year train wreck as Detroit's starter from 2002 to 2005. Now even Detroit's former whipping boy can poke fun at his ex-team. "It's weird to think I was here in the heyday," deadpanned Harrington, who finished with a sickly 18-37 record as the Lions' quarterback. (Read TIME's top 10 sports moments...
...nation’s capital on Saturday, the Harvard men’s basketball team fell 78-63 to George Washington after a tough first half, despite a spirited comeback attempt late in the second half. The Crimson was without freshman forward Keith Wright, who was sick. A starter in all seven games this year, Wright is second on the team with 10.3 points per game. He will be out indefinitely, a major blow for Harvard, who kept it close nonetheless against its talented hosts before falling away near the end. “It’s not really...
...Describing his campaign as a “slow-starter,” Waite hinted at plans for a dramatic finish but declined to discuss them in greater detail...
...nurture argument comes up all the time. But it’s always brought up to end debate,” said Gordon W. Braxton, a prevention specialist in the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response. “Today we want to use it as a conversation starter. To ask if this is the case, what can we then do?” The panel was equally divided along this nature-nurture line. Both biology professor David A. Haig and anthropology professor Richard W. Wrangham—the author of “Demonic Males?...
...where we want to be as a program.” Perhaps the Crimson can even the playing field when it fills the holes in its lineup. Senior Andrew Flanagan (165 lbs.) was a late scratch, joining sophomore Corey Jantzen (141) and rookie Zack Pope (125) as the third starter held out of the tournament.With the 125 and 141 positions empty, Harvard began all three matches with a 12-0 deficit, keeping the squad from posing a serious threat.“We took our lumps,” Caputo said. “It was definitely a week...