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...longest journey was a 4,255-mile trek from Portland, Maine, to Corpus Christi, Texas. Over the years, he was bitten by a sea turtle, a bluefish and a dog; hit by a tanker once and by freighters twice; and smacked in the head by a Coke bottle thrown by a pier owner who said Capune was scaring the fish...
...story of the season. Words like “warrior” and “soldier” get thrown around quite a bit in sports—perhaps more than many would care to hear—but if there ever was a team that went down fighting, it was the 2004 version of Harvard baseball...
Cummings was one of nine students thrown out of Harvard and run out of Cambridge in 1920 for being gay or associating with gays. A top-secret body called “The Court” conducted the witch-hunt, and for decades the records of the tribunal were hidden in the bowels of the University Archives...
...simply dazzled Harvard opponents, players and fans alike with his lightning-quick speed and seemingly-impossible receptions, not to mention his almost eerie ability to avoid being tackled. In the Holy Cross game, Edwards managed to turn an under-thrown pass from Fitzpatrick into a dizzying whirl of twice-beaten defenders. When a Crusader cornerback attempted to quell the Edwards insurrection, he ended up being carried off the field on a stretcher while the Harvard junior cruised to a 42-yard gain on the play. Fitzpatrick called the game Edwards’ “coming-out party...
...when the possibility of free beer from Anheuser-Busch was thrown into the bacchanalian mix, undergraduates throughout the College began to strip their beds and head to parties dressed in sheets and safety pins...