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...high from their 19-3 win in which 13 different players tallied scores. Having lost its first four games in 2007, the Crimson needs to set the tone for the season, and it needs to set it this weekend.The team will have some help from new head coach John Tillman, a former assistant coach for the Naval Academy from 1995 to 2007. Tillman is no stranger to the spotlight. From 2004-2007 his team posted the second most wins in Division I lacrosse and was one of just five programs to appear in four consecutive NCAA tournaments during that span.Tillman...
...John Tillman, a former assistant coach at the Naval Academy, has been named the new head coach of the Harvard men’s lacrosse team, Director of Athletics Bob Scalise announced Wednesday. Tillman, who had served as a Midshipmen assistant since 1995, had been the head assistant coach since 2002. His best season with Navy came in 2004, when helped lead the Midshipmen to the NCAA championship game, an eventual 14-13 loss to Syracuse. Navy made the NCAA Tournament five times while Tillman was on the staff. “I am thrilled to undertake this new challenge...
...person and from the grave, honored and pitied as heroes and pawns. Jessica Lynch was no "little girl Rambo from the hills of West Virginia who went down fighting," she told the lawmakers investigating what families are told about how soldiers die. NFL star turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman had not died a hero under enemy fire, his brother Kevin said, but died by friendly fire. And in both cases, the chain of command told a different story...
Kevin, who had served in the same platoon, recoiled at the "calculated lies," including a Silver Star awarded his brother because the Army needed a hero as much as it feared a scandal. It was weeks before the Tillmans learned the truth. "We've all been betrayed," Pat's mother Mary Tillman said. "We never thought they would use him the way they...
Lynch and Tillman served with honor, but their honor too was a victim of friendly fire. "The truth in war is not always easy," Lynch declared and then paid homage to all who have served, and died, like the best friend she lost that day when her underarmored convoy went astray. "The truth is always more heroic than the hype." Just less politically convenient...