Jack
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Post by Jack on Oct 21, 2014 8:17:49 GMT -5
I just listened to the Slate "Hang Up and Listen" sports podcast, and the great Bob Ryan was a guest to promote his new memoir, Scribe. It was a very entertaining segment, but the biggest surprise was to learn that young Bob, in his senior year at Lawrenceville School in New Jersey in 1964, had high aspirations of attending Georgetown, only to be denied admission. According to Ryan, his college counselor (or whatever the role was known as at the time) called up the Georgetown admissions office to alert them of their error and ultimately persuaded Georgetown to accept him. Alas, Ryan already felt spurned by the Hilltop and elected to continue with his plan to attend his safety school, Boston College. Ryan noted that his career likely would have been completely different and perhaps he may have never achieved fame in his profession, given that he would not have gone to the Boston Globe and thus would not have covered the Celtics of Havlicek, Cowens, Bird, etc. Funny that perhaps the two most notable Boston basketball writers, Ryan and Bill Simmons (who also has mentioned his rejection many times), could have been Hoyas.
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Nevada Hoya
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Oct 24, 2014 15:35:18 GMT -5
Wow, he would have been lic's classmate. I guess he didn't make the grade due to his English and grammar, of which we know lic is an expert.
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