Imagine if, when you were at school, you'd spent all those dreary hours staring at a blackboard playing computer games instead.
Marshall's teams won two N.F.L. championships, in 1937 (the Redskins' first year in Washington after having deserted Boston) and in 1942 when Marshall himself chalked "73-0" on the blackboard before the championship game and the Redskins avenged the Bears' rout by that score for the 1940 title.
Today, Mushfiqa, encouraged by the competitive nature of being made to play word games on the blackboard, volunteers to go up and write words.
Prior to a game during the 72 73 season Shero wrote a quote about commitment on the dressing room blackboard, and the team won the game.
In October 1993, the coach of the Japan national team, Hans Ooft, scrawled "45 minutes to the USA" on the locker room blackboard at halftime in the final game in the Asian zone of qualification for the 1994 World Cup.
Late in his career as a founding member of sports television's most-celebrated triumvirate, the announcing team for ABC's "Monday Night Football," Meredith turned up at a production meeting before a game, rolling in a blackboard with a great show of purpose.
We're served a constantly reheated goulash of playground dunkers, sharky scouts, insane blackboard-breaking coaches and game-fixing gangsters.
In the Lakers' locker room after the game, he had written on a blackboard: "Gave them some confidence.
Kentucky Coach Guy Morriss broke his hand this month punching a blackboard during a raucous halftime speech in a game the Wildcats were losing to Mississippi State.
A whizz with a stick of high tech chalk and a plasma blackboard, Ryan imparts his deep knowledge of the game with such enthusiasm and clarity you wonder why he ever packed the tracksuit away.
