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Central Michigan coach John Bonamego confessed he had some homework to do when it was announced that the Chippewas were playing Tulsa in the Miami Beach Bowl.I dont know much about Tulsa yet, he said, but I know well face a high-powered offense.Indeed, the Golden Hurricane (9-3) will bring the nations sixth-most productive offense in the country to Marlins Park in Miami to face the Chippewas (6-6) at 2:30 p.m. Monday with ESPN handling the telecast.In just his second season, coach Philip Montgomery has guided his Tulsa crew to churn out yardage at a 522.6-yard-per-game clip, which ranks No. 6 in FBS statistics nationally. Not only that, the former Baylor offensive coordinator has the Golden Hurricane on the verge of becoming the first FBS program to feature a 3,000-yard passer, two 1,000-yard rushers and two 1,000-yard receivers.Tulsa already is the just the fifth team with a 3,000-yard passer (quarterback Dane Evans with 3,044), two 1,000-yard rushers (running backs James Flanders with 1,529 and DAngelo Brewer with 1,330) and a 1,000-yard receiver (wide receiver Keenan Lucas with 1,108).Wide receiver Josh Atkinson goes into the game needing just 73 yards in catches to hit 1,000.Im not a big stat guy, Montgomery said. But this is one thats out there. Its never been done. To have the opportunity to do it just doesnt come along very often.Montgomery said he wont alter his approach to the game to go for the mark -- Dont let the horse buck you there. Lets stay in the saddle and finish this thing up, is the colorful way he put it -- because getting to the 10-win level for the 10th time in program history takes priority.Thats what our focus is, Montgomery said. Weve talked about it. Teams that are excited about bowl season, that are fired up about going to the bowl, those are the ones that usually play well. And our guys are excited about it.The Chippewas have a little motivation of their own. They will be playing in their third consecutive bowl, but they have lost their last two postseason appearances, including a 21-14 loss to Minnesota in last seasons Quick Lane Bowl, Bonamegos first at CMU.We want to win, get a bowl ring, hold a trophy -- something we havent been able to do, senior quarterback Cooper Rush said. Its definitely on our mind.Rush figures to play a key role if that is to happen. 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The gold medal went to Swiss snowboarder Iouri Podladtchikov. Swell Bottle Flowers . Collaros, 25, was solid last season, posting a 5-2 record as the starter while incumbent Ricky Ray was injured. Collaros also started Torontos 23-20 regular-season finale loss to Montreal — Ray didnt dress because the Argos had already clinched first in the East Division — but was one of three quarterbacks to play that day. The wizarding world that J.K. Rowling imagines for us in Harry Potter books feels intimately familiar, as if we also attended Hogwarts as a teenager, drove past the Dursleys house on a Sunday morning, and consider it perfectly normal to fly on broomsticks and travel through fireplaces.We accept the feats of athletics with the same faith -- unquestionably believing the speed of a fastball, the grace of a free throw, and the strength of a tennis player. We feel the magic of being transported through watching something that seems real but has not been personally experienced.Rowling understands the importance of sports as a way to bring people together. Even if you have never held a Harry Potter book in your hands, you have probably heard of quidditch, a flying sport played on broomsticks in midair.?In a literary sense, quidditch serves as a way for Rowling to introduce the idea of women leaders in sports as neither taboo nor remarkable.Notable is Angelina Johnson, portrayed in the story by Rowling as a tall black girl who played chaser on the Gryffindor quidditch team and later becomes captain of the coed team. Rowling doesnt emphasize either Angelinas gender or her race. But it seems an intentional move. Last summer, she publicly defended tennis star Serena Williams when a Twitter user said Williams was built like a man.Rowling coolly came to Williams defense by sarcastically tweeting: Yeah, my husband looks just like this in a dress.ddddddddddddYoure an idiot.?She also showed her support of Williams by tweeting, I love her. What an athlete, what a role model, what a woman!?Rowling is deliberate in her allyship. She is a writer who uses her skills to subtly insert the invisible back into our own consciousness.Her forthcoming and much anticipated book, The Cursed Child, is a play, which requires a different kind of reading. Your eyes act as ears, as if the story were being told to you and your brain creates the rest?-- where the light comes from, and how the eyebrows wiggle. Left to its own imagination, another thing the mind does is fill in skin color, which some readers proved when they assumed the character Hermione was white. Rowling had to clarify in a 2015 tweet: brown eyes, frizzy hair and very clever. White skin was never specified. Rowling loves black Hermione.The Cursed Child is an opportunity to soften the possibilities of our imagination. Like good fiction, sports bring us the magic of being transported. Sports, like reading stories, are a way for us to train our minds, to observe whats going on and to be immersed in the present moment as we wait for the ball to swoosh, to land, to plunk.Many thanks to J.K. Rowling for the magical world she helps us imagine.Carrie Ann Welsh is a writer based in Wisconsin.? ' ' '