Ed Smith
Ed Smith
Played county cricket for Kent from 1996 to 2004 and Middlesex from 2005 to 2008. He also wrote the book Playing Hard Ball.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCricket Player
Date of Birth19 July 1977
CountryUnited States of America
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This radioactive material was packaged the way it should have been, in the proper equipment, to withstand a whole lot more than what it took last night.
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I was really happy our effort after a tough game yesterday against LaGrange. We came out with good energy and good intensity.
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I never heard people speak about segregation as some great cross that they were bearing. They just went on about their lives. Some of them had good contacts with white people that they were serving in someone's home. Sometimes those white families almost effectively adopted you.
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Howard is still a great school. But many of the great faculty members that would be at Howard today are now at Harvard and Yale and Princeton. All this comes as a consequence of affirmative action and the admissions policies that encouraged blacks to enroll in the Ivy League schools.
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I try to tell them before every game that somebody will have to come in and play well. Those girls really played well tonight.
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It's real special when two teams bring everything they have to a championship basketball game. Both teams played exceptional defense, and this one feels good.
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The community put such a premium on success. And you had no excuse to blame racism or discrimination as a reason why you couldn't succeed.
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We played a pretty perfect game that night. I don't think it will be easy by any means. But the girls will be excited and ready to go on Saturday.
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We played about 10 minutes of real good basketball. I don't know if it was our best stretch this season, but we played strong.
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I'm glad the mayor has given a timetable. I know it's up to him to bring the names, but we don't want to wait more than a year.
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I mean, you're talking about shutting an interstate down for four or five hours... it could have been several days had it gotten to that point.
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It's so much less pressure here. No one cares if you make a mistake. You can play a song to try it out. People are very respectful.
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We didn't have any Ku Klux Klan in Washington, D.C. There was no White Citizens Council. I mean, there was just this vast separation that you didn't have any kind of contact with until you went beyond the boundaries of your community.
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It doesn't mean they will take it up then, but they could.