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Five weeks ago, the stocky old Greek, whose exuberant presence now filled his curtained-off corner of the ER, had undergone a "new old" hip replacement. Nick's artificial hip had a metal-on-metal bearing (basically a large metal ball in a metal cup) - a remake of an old design, one that doctors were using 40 years ago. In the 1970s, the metal-on-metal construction was abandoned by orthopedists worldwide because it wasn't very stable and failed to relieve pain as reliably as the current metal-on-plastic standard, a metal stem and ball in a plastic...
...student athlete, blasting a culture where athletes take easy classes if they even attend them at all, grade inflation is rampant, and players jump ship to the NBA the first chance they get (despite the league’s new draft eligibility age requirement, supposedly there to improve college ball and teach players the right way to play the game).The speech, which lasted roughly an hour and a half, had a strange effect on me. It made me appreciate the sports environment at Harvard.Crimson sports don’t garner the same fanfare or attention as larger...
...really did an outstanding job, and that’s our history, we do a pretty good job of finding out what they do best and then trying to take it away from them,” Murphy said. “We made it tougher to throw the ball...
...Still, the Red is overshadowed by its more famous neighbor, Bethpage Black, so difficult that most amateurs have reason to brag simply for breaking 100. In contrast to the Black, the Red course has relatively flat greens, which run fast enough to give players the challenge of stopping the ball close to the hole. “The nice thing is that you can make a lot of birdies out there, but it was pretty long,” sophomore Danny Mayer said. “If you hit it in the wrong spots, you’d be hitting...
...game, leading Harvard to 1-0 win against New Hampshire yesterday at Ohiri Field. The Crimson finally broke things open with 15:28 remaining in regulation, when Wideroff threaded a leading pass through the Wildcats defense and found Sheeleigh running on. Sheeleigh beat UNH goalkeeper Nikki Golding to the ball and tucked away the lone goal of the match. Wideroff, who connected with Sheeleigh twice on Friday, got the assist and inspired talk from coach Ray Leone of a potentially dynamic freshman duo. “It’s a team thing but you’re always looking...