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Until she stepped into a dragon boat, Kathy Pollonais-Britt was most emphatically not a team player. The veteran marathon runner loved the solitude of pounding the pavement, not the egoism and pressure of team sports. "I'd never been a groupie," she says. But when her employer, the health-care company Kaiser Permanente, sponsored the San Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival last year, the social worker was intrigued. In dragon-boat racing, a 2,000-year-old Chinese sport traditionally held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, paddlers race to a drummer's beat...
...were just getting ready to start and a huge storm began, so the raced got delayed and we had to hide in this little hut for an hour,” sophomore varsity stroke George Kitovitz said. “All the crews had to take their boats out and run for the nearest shelter.”But when the time came, when the wind had died down and the referees resumed their positions, neither rain nor lightning could keep the Tigers from fulfilling a season of prophetic EARC success, which began with the team’s first...
...lightweight varsity eights, that battle turned out to be a futile one. The Harvard varsity fought with Yale and Navy for second place throughout the first 1000 meters. The Bulldogs built a five-seat lead over the Crimson and had a slight advantage over Navy early, and the three boats jostled back and forth throughout the course.“I still think that had we raced a little better race we could have gotten second,” varsity bow-man Brian Aldrich said. “But with the way Cornell rowed today—it would have...
...notion, calling it unromantic.) As for the future ex--Mrs. Norman, with whom the golfer has two grown children, her windfall could add up to a hefty $150 million. Her husband's holdings include a winery, a sportswear line, a golf-course-design firm and a really big boat. Cue the theme music, please: Can't buy me love, love...
...Blowing the Whistle on YouTube The latest hot homemade video claims that Coast Guard patrol boat security cameras have blind spots. But in the YouTube age, viewers should be wary of their...