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...Harvard baseball team looks to rebound from a four-game sweep last weekend at the University of Alabama-Birmingham with yet another southern tour—this time through Louisiana. The Crimson (1-7) will hope to solidify its pitching rotation and get the bats moving more consistently over the next week before opening Ivy League play the following weekend.“We’re hoping to be a little more consistent and play some complete games,” senior Tom Stack-Babich said. “We’ve played well in parts of each...
...risks of playing strong teams in midseason form. Harvard baseball (1-7) has benefited from challenging such high level competition in preparation for the Ivy season, but after a disheartening weekend—in which the Crimson dropped all four of its contests against UAB in Pensacola, Fla. and Birmingham, Ala.—the squad is looking to regroup and find its stride.“Honestly, [the weekend] was pretty disappointing,” freshman starter Brent Suter said. “We should have been more competitive, but we’ll learn from it and move...
...engravings are typically copied from another source, like a drawing or painting. Shakespeareans have been tantalized for generations by the possibility that a genuine life portrait of the man survives somewhere. Now Stanley Wells, professor emeritus of Shakespeare Studies at Birmingham University and one of the world's most distinguished Shakespeare scholars, says he has identified one. Wells is convinced that an oil painting on wood panel that has rested for centuries in the collection of an old Irish family was painted from life around 1610, when Shakespeare was 46. If that's so, it would be the only true...
...problems of its own. And Scripps, long known for its bottom-line thinking, claimed it lost $15 million in Denver last year. Having had its fill of this ink-on-paper version of High Noon, it threw down its guns first - just as it had done in Albuquerque, N.M.; Birmingham, Ala.; and, ironically, Cincinnati...
...innings.” The Crimson begins with a tough schedule yet again, with its first thirteen games coming down south. The team opens its campaign with a three-game set against Jacksonville State this weekend, followed by four contests against the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Harvard wraps up its road trip with an entire week of play in Louisiana—against Centenary, Louisiana-Monroe, LSU, and New Orleans—before heading back up north. “A lot of teams like to play schools they can beat, but I like to play teams where...