Kavanaugh skull and bones12/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Then-sports editor Dan Levy said Kavanaugh’s drafts were dry, but thorough, and editors “were very happy to have someone reliable covering a big sport like basketball.” Kavanaugh also wrote about basketball and other sports for the Yale Daily News. But Kavanaugh ended up winning by a half-hour and went on to run marathons, Ewing said. Ewing ran track in high school and thought it wouldn’t be a competition. Chris Coons, D-Del., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.Ī few years after graduation, he and Kavanaugh decided to race each other in a half-marathon. President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, departs after meeting with Sen. And he always had his teammates’ backs, said Ewing, who recalled the roughly 6-foot-tall Kavanaugh immediately stepping up to take on a taller player on defense after Ewing got knocked down one game. ![]() Kavanaugh went on to play two years on the JV, plus intramural basketball, football and softball and pickup hoops at the campus gym with other students and locals from surrounding New Haven.Īn unselfish point guard, Kavanaugh was someone the best varsity players wanted on their teams during pre-season pickup games because of his “calm smarts and work ethic,” said Dino Ewing, a teammate and close friend. He tried out for the varsity basketball team and didn’t make the cut, but then-coach Tom Brennan still remembers being struck by the freshman’s “wonderfully pleasant,” upbeat demeanor. His passion, those who knew him say, was sports. Friends describe him as humble, approachable - “a normal guy, in a positive sense,” as Munnelly puts it. “You meet people who say, ‘I’m going to be a senator someday,'” but Kavanaugh wasn’t one of them, says Chris Munnelly, one of his Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity brothers.įriends figured Kavanaugh was an academic talent - in classes, he “understood things more clearly and just ‘got it’ easier than others,” pal and hallmate Dwayne Oxley said - but the now-judge didn’t wear his smarts on his sleeve. To friends, Kavanaugh perhaps stood out most for not showcasing himself as a standout on a campus where many students aren’t shy about their intellect and ambition. The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to begin hearings on the nomination Tuesday.Ĭlassmates don’t recall Kavanaugh as outspoken about his views - “I knew him more as a sports fan than a fan of any political agenda,” says law school friend Jonathan Franklin - and therefore not inclined to take sides in campus controversies such as a 1984 clerical and technical workers’ strike that closed dining halls for weeks. The White House declined to comment for this story. Interviews with more than a dozen people who knew him in college and Yale Law School draw a portrait of a serious, but not showy student and sports lover whose drive and competitiveness helped him both on the court and in the classroom. In some ways, Kavanaugh was like many Yale students of his time: a product of a high-powered East Coast prep school who majored in history, then Yale’s most popular major, and headed for law school after graduating in 1987. “If you had asked him back then: ‘You have the option of becoming a Supreme Court justice or having a six-year career in the NBA,’ I think he would have picked the NBA,” said Rusty Sullivan, a fellow sportswriter at the college paper. It was the 1980s at Yale University, and Brett Kavanaugh’s classmates were protesting South Africa’s apartheid system, rallying for gay rights and backing dining hall workers in a labor dispute.īut friends and acquaintances say the future Supreme Court nominee seemed more interested in battles on the basketball court than politically charged debates. ![]()
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