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...storyline when the skates are hung up for the year and the minds of sports fans start drifting towards baseball. After the Crimson skated off the ice in Albany, as Princeton started celebrating its 4-1 victory in the ECAC championship game and its resulting berth in the NCAA tournament, Harvard’s whole season can be arranged into a collection of turning points, whose outcomes became the storylines that this team’s play created.For me at least, two games mark that trajectory on the season level, and the first one was not pretty...
...military procurement. He was detailed but never dull. He was, in fact, quite impressive - another sign that this is a candidate smart and supple enough to grow and adapt - even though the substance was buried by media accounts of his transparent common-man photo ops: bowling, watching the NCAA tournament in a bar, drinking Pennsylvania's legendary Yuengling beer...
...debate over the future of golf, as in so many sports at present, excitement over progress competes with reverence for the past. At Augusta, though, it's no contest - nostalgia has been the driving force behind the changes to the course, and also explains the tournament's wider efforts to foster a throwback feel. Part of the appeal of any sport is the link it provides to previous generations. But because the Masters is the only major golf tournament to return to the same course every year, the notion of following in the footsteps of one's forebears is literal...
This reverence for past generations may also account for the distinctly patriarchal feel of the Masters. The tournament's defining image of the 1980s was Jack Nicklaus' victory in 1986, when he took the unusual step of choosing his son to carry his bag, rather than a professional caddy. An indelible memory of Woods' victory in 1997 was the bear hug he gave his waiting father behind the 18th green. And, of course, at the award ceremony, the winner is not given a trophy but instead is presented with a green jacket by the previous year's champion - more...
...often been argued that the appeal of watching great athletes compete is that they seem to manage, in their attainment of the ostensibly impossible, to transcend mortality. Perhaps the Masters' success in fostering its own glorious illusion of immortality helps to explain the tournament's enduring popularity. One thinks of the call of the on-course ranger before a golfer hits a shot. At Augusta, the request seems to be directed at the passage of time itself: "Stand still please...