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...wouldn’t get into anything that happened with him” at St. John’s, Sullivan added.A Cambridge native, Jarvis played high school hoops at nearby Cambridge Rindge and Latin School and later coached there, where he guided former NBA superstar Patrick Ewing. He was an assistant coach for four years at Harvard in the late 1970s under coach Tom “Satch” Sanders.Jarvis’ collegiate head coaching career began in 1985 at Boston University. He took the Terriers to the NCAA tournament in 1988 and 1990 before moving...
...been carefully following his basketball progeny's stunning three-year turnaround at Georgetown. And though Carril calls JT3's Hoya players "darn levelheaded Joes," they admit to not immediately buying into a system that demands total team discipline. "When you're coming from high school and you're the superstar of your team, you can sometimes ask, ?Why are we doing this?'" says Green. "But we soon realized that nobody could guard us." Thompson never considered scrapping the Princeton O. "You are who you are," he says. "And you do what you know." And that is the code for winning...
...jacket, with a Lions towel wrapped around his neck, Koike spends the entire game bobbing like a prizefighter in Seibu's official cheering section, where well-drilled fans in blue and white drum and sing personalized anthems every time a Lion comes to bat. One player is missing though--superstar pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, who left for the Boston Red Sox this off-season after eight years with Seibu...
...business came into vogue. Pop culture of every kind was exploding. P.T. Barnum operated an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan that featured stage plays, vaudeville, freak shows, a menagerie and a somewhat insane museum of natural history. In 1850, Barnum promoted the first American tour of the first international superstar--the Swedish singer Jenny Lind, for whom he stirred up such hysteria that on the day she arrived in New York, almost one-tenth of the city thronged the wharves to get a glimpse...
Princeton University's Elaine Pagels is about the nearest thing there is to a superstar in the realm of Christian history scholarship. It is largely through her work that many understand the early non-Orthodox Christianity that she at one point dubbed (and later un-dubbed, finding the term imprecise) the Gnostic Gospels. She breaks new ground with the debut of Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity, her collaboration with Harvard Divinity scholar Karen King about the second-century "Gospel of Judas" that was made public last year...