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...solid, turnover-free performance that included its most balanced attack of the year. The bulk of the turnaround came from Harvard’s ability to protect and possess the football. After an abysmal deficit in possession time last weekend against Brown, the Crimson seemed to move the ball at will, holding the football for over nine minutes in multiple quarters. “I don’t think anyone in America works more on ball security than we do,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “It’s our only goal offensively...
...play in the first half, taking the lead in the 34th minute when freshman forward Melanie Baskind’s skillful over-the shoulder volley split Yale’s back line and fell into the path of the speedy Sheeleigh. The sophomore saw her effort to slot the ball across the goal mouth deflect in for the game’s first goal, her second of the season.“I was just running down the flank...I was looking to put [the ball] back in, and we had our team crashing in,” Sheeleigh said...
...thinks some of the flashier ministries will shrink along with their congregants' fortunes. Says Walton: "You would think that the current economic conditions would undercut their theology." But he predicts they will persevere, since God's earthly largesse is just as attractive when one is behind the economic eight ball...
...chances, we just didn’t stick the ball in the net,” Farrar said. “Brown did a little better job of capitalizing on their opportunities...
...Gwen very competently summarized the conventional wisdom you'd already been hearing all day. She didn't really move the ball." - Slate blogger and journalist Mickey Kaus...