Tracy Smith
Tracy Smith
Tracy K. Smithis an American poet and educator. She has published three collections of poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize for a 2011 collection, Life on Mars. About this collection, Joel Brouwer wrote in 2011: "Smith shows herself to be a poet of extraordinary range and ambition. ... As all the best poetry does, Life on Mars first sends us out into the magnificent chill of the imagination and then returns us to ourselves, both changed and consoled."...
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Date of Birth16 April 1972
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I've been telling our guys all along that our season starts this weekend when Big Ten play begins.
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Things took a turn on the field and from that point is when we started to get going.
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The schedule is something we wanted to address. We think with the addition of Miami (Fla.) and some other changes we made to our mid-week opponents, we have taken steps in the right direction. We will always try and play the best teams in the nation during the non-conference portion of our schedule to better prepare us for Big Ten play and beyond.
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There's always an element of surprise associated with it.
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That is a problem that all toll roads in this country share.
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It's all about confidence in ourselves and being confident in who we are as a team. If we can accomplish that, I think we'll be fine this weekend and this season.
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A lot of teams would kill to pound out 13 hits like we did tonight. It's a shame it went to waste because we can't catch the ball.
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Our defense didn't give up enough points to beat us. If you can hold a team to 35 points, you've done a great job defensively.
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Of course we want to beat in-state teams, but we try to de-emphasize the opponent, because the real opponent is us. I do caution the guys that the other in-state schools will be gunning for us because of who we are.
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I don't want to say that it's just another game, because the team is excited and I'm excited as well. But our focus is to do whatever is necessary to get ready for the Big Ten season.
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He's not Superman, so we're going to treat him like any other guy. Hopefully we can do a good job of keeping him off the bases. When he gets on there, he makes it happen.
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He reached to tag him with the ball and he was a foot away from the guy. But umpires don't win and lose the game. If we do what we're supposed to do, we're not in that situation.