Maybe Jeremy Lin will start showing up to news conferences in crisp tailored suits cut sharp in the shoulders like Tom Brady's, with knit preppy ties draped over immaculate shirts.
In his 2004 novel I Am Charlotte Simmons, writer and social critic Tom Wolfe describes a sharp-witted female student who is, on paper, ideally suited for an Ivy League school, yet she finds herself brought down by a destructive social life at a fictional university.