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NCAA guidelines consider a competitor to have fully participated in a season if he or she has attended 20 percent of the tournaments. Having competed in every tournament that fall, Rooney’s athletic sophomore year was considered complete, even if her academic one was cut short.
Now that the Kylie and Katey are both entrenched in their own Harvard athletic activities—it’s about halfway through the field hockey season and hockey has an exhibition game this Friday—it’s tough to find time in the day to...
In the Anne of Green Gables novels, set in Prince Edward Island, the titular character is constantly engaged in back-and-forth bickering with her classmate and rival, Gilbert Blythe. When PEI visited the Bright Hockey Center for an exhibition contest yesterday, it was a similarly give-and-take affair...
And yet Beard and other women are lambasted for such acts. Contrary to male athletes who are lauded for their marketability (see: Beckham, David), when female athletes venture outside the immediate realm of athletic competition, they are criticized for diverting attention from the substance of their respective sports. Female athletes...
These same truths apply in the athletic world. The primary goal of professional sports is to make money. Because success is defined in monetary terms, bringing eyes to the sport must be done by any means necessary. Heck, learn from the NHL: They let their players exchange blows every game...