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Election Day is today, but one Harvard alum has already lost his bid for office—in Nicaragua...
Winning the Ivy title gave the Crimson an automatic entry into the 48-team tournament. The NCAA selection committee grants every conference winner an automatic bid and selects 26 additional ‘at-large’ teams. The only other Ivy team in the tournament, Brown University, received one of these bids. The committee picks the top 16 teams of the tournament and grants each of them a first round...
...Meanwhile, the race that Republicans are fretting about the most is going on just across the Potomac. In Virginia, the red state where Senator George Allen's reelection campaign was once expected to be little more than a test run for a 2008 presidential bid, Republicans are worried that the Republican-turned-Democrat former Navy Secretary Jim Webb is coming in for a very strong finish that could put the state into the Democratic column...
...needed a Crimson loss or tie to get a piece of the title. By winning the Ivies, Harvard, which was ranked No. 17 in Division I entering the weekend and boasts the second most prolific offense in the nation with a 2.59 goals per game average, earned an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament. Harvard is hoping for one of the top 16 bids, which would give it a bye through the first round and a home game in the second. The NCAA Tournament selection show is scheduled to air today on ESPN News...
...Harvard men's hockey team fell to 0-3 for the first time since the 1951-52 season, falling just short in a comeback bid and losing to St. Lawrence by a 5-4 margin. The Saints got on the board first with two scores in the first period, but the Crimson responded to tie it in the second on goals by captain Dylan Reese and junior Jon Pelle. Just as it had in the first two games of the season, however, the end of the second period spelled disaster for Harvard. A giveaway by Reese deep...