Word: broking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...achieve that goal, and that was pretty disappointing.” On March 1, everything was going right for Harvard. The Crimson honored its three seniors—Hallion, co-captain Jessica Knox, and Adrian Budischak—with a 51-48 thriller over Cornell that broke the tie between the two teams at the top of the Ancient Eight standings. A loud and proud Lavietes Pavilion crowd chanted “Ivy champs!” as the team moved into the league driver’s seat: with wins in its next two games at Brown and Yale...
...step into the press box, we must shed our Harvard gear and adopt a stance of neutrality. It doesn’t matter if the volleyball team just clinched the Ivy League, if the hockey team just forced overtime in the Beanpot championship game, or if Clifton Dawson just broke the record for rushing yards in a career—you better keep your emotions in check. While this may not seem unique to college journalists—most sports reporters probably develop an affinity for the teams they cover (if it didn’t exist already...
...He’s done everything we’ve asked him to do.” Whether that meant making shots, finding the open man, grabbing rebounds (third on the team at 4.8 per game), or blocking shots (second on the team with 18), Lin broke out as a leader in all facets of the game. “Jeremy’s great. He’s killin’!” junior forward Evan Harris said of Lin following a victory over Penn in February. “It’s great, especially...
This point was driven home to me during my sophomore year at Harvard, when a boy broke up with me by giving me a book of Jonathan Franzen essays called “How to be Alone.” Leaving aside the stereotypically Harvard gesture of giving a girl a book to let her down gently, there was something deeply offensive at the time about the assumption that I would be so devastated about our break-up that I would need to learn how to be alone. Yet despite the irrelevance of essays on dying fathers and big tobacco...
...start of the spring season, Harvard demonstrated that it had the potential to do some damage in the Ivies when it nearly knocked off No. 57 Southern Methodist University in a 4-3 loss at home. But over the course of the preseason, injuries and illness broke up the starting lineup and prevented the Crimson from competing at the top of its game. The squad dropped close matches to Wisconsin and Boston University and suffered convincing losses to seven ranked opponents. “It can be easy to slip into feeling that losses mean you?...