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Wicked Local photo/David Maccaferri The hockey team will also be accepting donations of hats, scarves, gloves and sweatshirts. PLYMOUTH – Colony Place has opened its fourth annual Enchanted |
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Wicked Local Photo/David Maccaferri The Old Colony Memorial and are the contest's media sponsors. The contest runs through Jan. 3 and PGDC will present a $500 prize to |
The problem with nicknames like ‘The Freak’ is that some people misidentify what population these athletes are freaks of. Go back to the Ogden versus Kearse example. Or, since nobody had labeled Ogden with the nickname, it was ‘Freak’ on freak action. When he faced off with Jonathan Ogden of the Baltimore Ravens, it was freak on freak action. To earn a nickname like ‘The Freak’, one must presumably exhibit qualities otherwise rare or unknown to the population. He’s an athletic freak when the sample is composed of the entire United States or world’s population. Cops would stand to the side, hockey referee style, if this happened on a sidewalk and let the two behemoths tire themselves out. Kearse stood 6’4”, weighed 265 pounds, and still ran the 40-yard dash in 4. Meanwhile Ogden was 6’9”, 340 pounds, and had longer reach than most phone towers. Take Tennessee Titans’ era (the first time) Jevon Kearse, the guy who was most commonly associated with the nickname in the last decade....