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...element that separates the NCAA Tournament from all other stages in amateur and professional sports. The people winning and losing these games are barely removed from adolescence and have not yet assumed the steely, indifferent faces of seasoned professional athletes. The NCAA Tournament is much more prone to the Adam Morrison displays of 2006 – the agonizing and involuntary tears and emotional hugs between coaches and departing seniors.Why is that? Why is the NCAA Tournament so unique in its unabashed outpouring of frustration and triumph? In other sporting events, why are there so few displays like the famous...
...Seven of the starters had multiple hits, led by Stoeckel (3-for-5) and sophomore Matt Rogers (three RBI), as Harvard posted crooked numbers in the third, fifth, and seventh innings. Utility man Max Warren got the start, allowing just one unearned run in four innings. Sophomore Adam Cole struggled in relief, throwing just nine of 23 pitches for strikes and allowing three runs. “We’re hoping Cole comes around, but right now, he’s a long way away from being ready,” Walsh said.FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL 13, HARVARD 6Florida International...
...featuring professional trivia, karaoke, “Dance Dance Revolution” (DDR), and food from Harvard Square restaurants—will culminate in Yardfest, an outdoor concert and carnival scheduled for April 28, Campus Life Fellow John T. Drake ’06 said. CEB President Adam Goldenberg ’08 added that the series has been a “real collaborative effort” between the board and HoCos. Drake said yesterday that the project “seemed like a really good way to bring a lot of added value to House life and make...
...residents of Dara Adam Khel, a gunsmiths' village 30 miles south of Peshawar, Pakistan, awoke one morning last month to find their streets littered with pamphlets demanding that they observe Islamic law. Women were instructed to wear all-enveloping burqas and men to grow their beards. Music and television were banned. Then the jihadists really got serious. These days, dawn is often accompanied by the wailing of women as another beheaded corpse is found by the side of the road, a note pinned to the chest claiming that the victim was a spy for either the Americans or the Pakistani...
...This week [Crimson head coach Joe Walsh] has really put us through some tough practices to get us ready,” sophomore pitcher Adam Cole said. “It’s just something we have to fight through...