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Harvard’s starting quarterback George Lalick was benched in favor of little-used reserve Frank Champi by Harvard Coach John Yovicsin. Champi, a star javelin thrower on the Harvard track team, had only completed five passes all season...
Harvard’s starting quarterback George Lalick was benched in favor of little-used reserve Frank Champi by Harvard Coach John Yovicsin. Champi, a star javelin thrower on the Harvard track team, had only completed five passes all season...
...producers can substitute in place of real music, and of course, Carson Daly’s soon-to-be-networked blank face and five o’ clock shadow. [How bitchy is this current cast of the Real World New York? Usually, there’s an annoying tantrum thrower or naïve cry baby, but this current group just makes you want to give up on the amusement that is reality television altogether.] That is, of course, until the great digital cable explosion of September 2001. Now even the true north can no longer be strong and free...
Surely our hunter-gatherer ancestors played games: "Race you to that carcass," perhaps, or "I'm a better spear thrower than you." The winner ate; the loser was tiger bait. Our Darwinian need for competition, short of war, ultimately diverted to sport. The Greeks stopped battles for their Olympics; the Romans hailed their gladiators; they also played a version of soccer. Ancient sportswriters recorded...
...While Clever failed to surpass hometown favorite John Steigeler of Oregon to win the national title, he nevertheless remained the greatest new-rules javelin thrower in Heptagonal history. His meet record of 74.06 meters and his three consecutive league titles has set the standard by which future Ivy javelin throwers will be judged...