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...under the guise of amateur athletics, is upon us once again. The players at Caltech, who compete in the NCAA's Division III, its lowest rung, will never get an invite to that party. Playoffs? Caltech coach Roy Dow is looking for kids who can hang on to the ball. The team just finished 1-24 and, for the 23rd straight season, failed to win a game in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The legendary science-and-engineering school may have 31 Nobel Prize winners to its name, and, sure, Einstein studied there. On the court, however, Caltech...
...University of La Verne, 80-74. Playing on its home court in Pasadena, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech's full name) had a 9-point lead in the first half. Yet the Beavers kept the most infamous streak in college hoops alive. "One little rebound, one little loose ball--if one part of the system gets perturbed a little bit, we win," says Haussler, staring blankly at a locker-room wall. "If you want to look at it scientifically...
...traditional Test match, which can last five days and still not produce a result); slightly less stupefying (one-day cricket, in which scoring rates are quicker and matches continue into the night); and passably exciting (Twenty20, in which batsmen are pretty much obliged to try to belt every ball out of the park). An odd thing about the IPL is that, until recently, Indians didn't much like Twenty20 and were leading the way in trying to jazz up one-day cricket. Then India won last year's inaugural Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa, and suddenly a good many...
...load—he’s a force,” Amaker said.Baumann dropped 20 points and snatched 12 rebounds against the Crimson while fellow teammate and senior Ben Nwachukwu added 16 points in limited minutes.However, Harvard’s big men have been playing their best ball of the season as of late. Senior forward Brad Unger and Harris combined for 71 points against Princeton and Penn over the weekend. “I thought that they played their hearts out,” Amaker said of his post players. “I was happy...
...five with 42 seconds to play, the Crimson turned the ball over twice and gave up three buckets to fall just short of its upset bid on the Ancient Eight leader...