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At age 28 former Harvard defensive back Andrew Berry, who graduated in four years with a bachelors in economics and a masters in computer science, might be the Cleveland Browns' Theo Epstein. Check out the FootballScoop story.
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When I was at the newspaper we tried to "localize" the Super Bowl every year. We would look high and low for someone from our area who had a connection with one of the teams. Most years we were able to find someone although, to be completely honest, sometimes the link could be kind of dubious. One of my favorite stories was about a local young man who had long been a huge Emmitt Smith fan and eventually had a fascinating interaction with him. I recall developing a new respect for Smith as a result.It would have been easy this year if the New England Patriots had made it given freshman quarterback Harry Kraft being with the Big Green but a Boston Globe story about the Pats' team doctor leaving that role provided another possibility. Turns out that Dr. Matthew Provencher is a graduate of Dartmouth Medical School (now known as Geisel School of Medicine).
Provencher, a New Hampshire native, is also leaving his role as chief of the sports medicine service at Massachusetts General Hospital to work as an orthopedic surgeon at the well-regarded Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colo.
