The News Review:
- CHAMPS SPORTS BOWL: Spartans credit coach with making them tougher
- IHT global sports forum with Christopher Clarey: Part 3
- The Great Debaters plays like a sports movie ‘” intentionally
CHAMPS SPORTS BOWL: Spartans credit coach with making them tougher
Detroit Free Press – Dec 27, 2007
com | Detroit Free Press. The Spartans had just finished their third consecutive losing season with defeats in eight of their final nine games. A few players were in legal trouble for off-field incidents. School officials had fired the head coach, John L.
IHT global sports forum with Christopher Clarey: Part 3
International Herald Tribune – Dec 27, 2007
We're continuing with the third installment of our year-end sports forum, which brings together our all-star panel of sports reporters from around the globe to look at the year from their regional perspectives. The focus this time is the strange and unexpected. What, for you, was the biggest surprise locally or globally? For me, it was.
The Great Debaters plays like a sports movie ‘” intentionally
Providence Journal – Dec 27, 2007
David LeeWhen Oscar winner Denzel Washington cast his new movie, The Great Debaters, he knew he needed more than actors. He needed to know that he had people who can project their voices, put passion into public speeches. “So, first day of rehearsal, he stuck us in this huge hall and made us shout out our points of view at the top of our lungs,” remembers Jurnee Smollett, who plays Samantha, the lone female member of the 1935 Wiley College debate team. “He said, ‘Forget about acting and just do your speech as if you can’t be too big,’ ” marvels Nate Parker, who plays Henry Lowe, the passionate firebrand of that all-black college’s team.
