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...boost. But Maduka didn’t show up.Cornell lost 51-48 in an ugly game of bricks, long rebounds, and a few clutch Harvard free throws down the stretch.The endless string of hypotheticals can begin. What if she had been there? What if Dartmouth’s buzzer-beater had rimmed out on Friday night? What if Maduka had made it back to Cambridge for the final minutes of Saturday’s game?But if Harvard sweeps Yale and Brown this weekend, the Crimson will clinch its third Ivy League championship in four years and second consecutive outright...
...sterling individual talents thrust together on the same team, expectations raised to the rafters. A title? Slam dunk. On paper, they look unbeatable. The '99 Houston Rockets, for example, had Charles Barkley, Hakeem Olajuwon and Scottie Pippen. The New York Yankees--every year their lineup looks like a world beater...
...buzzer-beater three-pointer from the Wolverines' Jerret Smith puts the Wolverines within six at the half. Stellar Harvard defense down low combined with Michigan's easy misses has kept the Crimson on top. Have to wonder if the Wolverines will stay in their zone or go man-to-man after all those easy Harvard lay-ups. All in all, a low-scoring half, but Harvard on top. HARVARD 28, MICHIGAN...
...older gentleman wore a shirt that said “Beater,” which one hopes alluded to the “wizarding sport” of Quidditch. The t-shirts, of course, were the province of the less devoted fans: the serious Potter partisans came in costume, and robes, scarves, and brightly-colored ties marked the true faithful...
...there are more important things in life. And Amazon doesn't need to kill iTunes anyway. Amazon's music store will be a handy tool for setting up package deals and promotional giveaways and such, but that's all it has to be: a loss leader, not a world beater...