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...with at time of 1:58.01, more than a second faster than her butterfly time from last year’s NCAAs.With the time, Bassi qualified to swim in the consolation final later in the day. She finished No. 14 with a time of 1:59.43 and an All-American distinction. The event was won by senior Mary Descenza from Georgia, who blew away the competition with a time of 1:53.78, almost three seconds faster than the second place finisher.“[Noelle] went an all time best time in the morning, so she was extremely happy about...
Some successes come as a surprise, but others are expected. At the NCAA Wrestling Championships, freshman Andrew Flanagan provided the surprise, and junior tri-captain Bode Ogunwole’s All-American performance came as a sure thing. Ogunwole, as a result of a 4-0 Friday run through the tournament’s consolation bracket, earned a sixth-place showing, giving him All-America status for the year. He is only the 17th Harvard All-American in the wrestling program’s history. “I feel pretty happy to make All-American,” Ogunwole...
...amorphous structure. Underground pioneers the Wu-Tang Clan hint at this dilemma when they ask nostalgically, “Can It Be All So Simple”, eventually breaking down “fly clichés” and easy street/smart dichotomies in favor of an epic, all-American mythos that draws on everything from pulp comic books and cheap kung-fu movies. Any static visual display of artifacts and commentary will be hard-pressed to uncover the symbolic web of even one Wu-Tang album, let alone the genre as a whole. While it may display some truly...
...says, smiling. “That’s been the big question all year, every year. But right now it feels good...I feel one hundred percent ready to go.”***When asked what one receives, exactly, for being a first-team high school All-American or the best high school baseball player in the state of Michigan, Salsgiver shrugs.There are no golden men atop trophies, apparently, and no fancy blue ribbons. It’s actually not much, materially speaking.“It’s in the paper,” he says...
...blood count up, of course—Morgan, Alstead’s favorite son, was vulnerable, restless, and down. He had been an endurance guy: a high school champion on the local cross-country scene, in sneakers and on skis. A Junior Olympian. An All-American.“I really believe that if Morgan wasn’t here playing baseball,” says Joe Walsh, his Harvard coach, “he’d be in Torino.” It was an awkward twist, this, his new fitness agenda, driving nails. As fate would have...