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This year at the NCAA tournament, Brand was the first recipient of the Schreff Sword, given to the USFCA Outstanding Coach of the Year, an honor awarded based on the votes of the coaches in attendance at the NCAA tournament...
...comes as no surprise that with such an impressive background, an amazing passion for the sport, and his strengths as a coach, that Brand received the 2005 Schreff Sword. Along with the award comes a great deal of respect from fellow colleagues, which Brand ultimately suggests is the most honorable aspect of receiving the hardware...
...Craftiwich. Well, he's sort of a hero. Actually, he's a duck, and a rather cowardly one at that. Well, he's sort of a duck, if ducks had arms and legs and wore vests. He's the central character of Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim's delightful sword and sorcery comedy series, "Dungeon," a French import, the second volume of which has just been released by NBM ($15). Imagine if the Muppets did Middle Earth and you'll have a pretty good idea of what makes "Dungeon" so charming and so wildly popular in other parts...
...Byron staggered back to his room and wrote a poem for his friend Thomas Moore: “So we’ll go no more a-roving/ So late into the night,/ Though the heart be still as loving,/ And the moon be still as bright.// For the sword outwears its sheath,/ And the soul wears out the breast,/ And the heart must pause to breathe,/ And Love itself have rest.” (Or, as glossed by a roommate, “Oh my God, I’m never drinking again.”) If you substitute...
...one’s thesis are pretty clear. You may not feel ready to part from it—the night was made for loving!—but it is time to move on. We’ll finish our theses; we’ll graduate. For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. It is a lesson I will be absorbing, with difficulty, between now and June. In the meantime, though, I’d be glad to tell you about the time that Byron swam the Hellespont...