Word: arena
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They brag about sellouts at the Beanpot hockey tournament every year and you can count heavyweight crew losses over the last decade on one hand and still have fingers left, but regardless, football reigns supreme at Harvard. The only real arena is Harvard Stadium and the only real gladiators are the starting football players. The best proof of this was last spring, when opposing baseball teams would refer to Brown as "the quarterback," when he had been one of the better pitchers in the Ivies for two years...
What kind of revisions? For one, the hockey team will be playing all this year's scheduled home games at Boston University's Walter Brown Arena, because renovations on Harvard's Watson Rink will keep it out of action through the end of the season. The Athletic Department had originally slated a new hockey rink for the athletic complex, but scrapped those plans early this year, as the fund drive faltered and the costs for the proposed rink rose from $5 million to $7 million. With no new hockey rink in sight, department officials decided that at the very least...
...second phase of the complex was to include the new hockey rink, renovations and an addition to Dillon Field House and conversion of Watson Rink into a basketball arena. Reardon said funding problems forced the Athletic Department to drop plans for the Dillon addition and the new hockey rink. The basketball team, hence, will continue to play on the worn courts of the Indoor Athletic Building (IAB); the hockey team, after this year's hiatus at B.U., will use the renovated-Watson Rink; and several sports teams will continue to feel the crunch in space available for locker room...
While the hockey team will feel the largest effect of the fund-drive failure this year, basketball will probably be hurt most by the cutbacks in the original athletic complex plan. The IAB basketball arena pales in comparison to a nice high school facility...
...squad have been drafted by NHL clubs. The bad news is that coach Billy Cleary's club, almost unbelievably, has narrowly missed the ECAC playoffs the past two seasons, and that the renovations at Watson Rink will mean that all home games shift to B.U.'s Walter Brown Arena...