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...Nicklaus' victory in 1986, when he took the unusual step of choosing his son to carry his bag, rather than a professional caddy. An indelible memory of Woods' victory in 1997 was the bear hug he gave his waiting father behind the 18th green. And, of course, at the award ceremony, the winner is not given a trophy but instead is presented with a green jacket by the previous year's champion - more a rite of initiation than an accolade. (Even at Augusta, however, there are limits to the old-fashioned quaintness: the jacket also comes with the very modern...
...crime genre. During the apartheid years, most would have found it unconscionable to write from a pro-police point of view, but the demise of apartheid has changed the equation. One of the new crime authors, Andrew Brown, whose Coldsleep Lullabye won the 2006 Sunday Times Literary Award for Fiction, was repeatedly arrested during the 1980s as a militant anti-apartheid activist. Twenty years on, he is a police reserve officer...
...Wisconsin in the Frozen Four semifinals on March 20, Vaillancourt was the best player on the best team in the country, “the most significant reason [Harvard had] played as well as it [had],” as Crimson coach Katey Stone said in the Patty Kazmaier Award program...
With all due respect to Agosta and Martin—and each of them is due a lot—no player was more integral to her team’s success this season than Vaillancourt, and even if her not getting the award would have made for better writing material, her getting it, deservingly, is so much more gratifying...
...Harvard women’s hockey team saw its season come to a disappointing end with a 4-1 loss to Wisconsin in the Frozen Four semifinal round, the Crimson was given some positive news to take back home with it.Junior forward Sarah Vaillancourt won the Patty Kazmaier Award, given annually to the best player in women’s college hockey.Vaillancourt led Harvard with 26 goals and 36 assists, was fifth in the nation with 1.82 points per game, and tied for second with 1.06 assists per game.“She’s relentless in her preparation...