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...GEORGETOWN (1-1)I took my little sister to visit Georgetown this past Saturday and after the tour we stopped by the football game. I didn’t think college pigskin existed on a level conspicuously worse than the Ivies. Until I saw the Hoyas facing Stony Brook. We were lucky to see two minutes go by without a punt. They were awful. Plus, Phil Estes’ Brown squad is eager to send a message to the Crimson before their Week Two showdown and defy the pollsters who slotted the defending champion Bears third in the preseason...
...Before the game against the Big Green, the squad needed a number of games to go a certain way: Hofstra to beat Delaware, Johns Hopkins to defeat Loyola, Georgetown over Penn State, Syracuse over Colgate, Ohio State’s to beat Army, and Albany to defeat Stony Brook...
...addition to taking a victory against Penn, Harvard defeated Denver, who received an automatic bid, and Stony Brook, who was on the bubble...
...Anderson said. “If you play around with it too much, then its not there any more....So much goes into getting ready to play, that I think [changing the system] would be wrong.”In the first game of the season against Stony Brook, for instance, O’Donnell played a spectacular first half, allowing only three goals. But Anderson wanted to stick with his game plan, so he replaced his starter with Pike, who contributed 11 saves in the 9-8 victory.For the season, both have produced at levels which have justified Anderson?...
...most interesting and closely-watched comix events of the year takes place this week when new publisher First Second releases its inaugural lineup of books. An imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a trade publishing division of the Holtzbrinck Publishing group, First Second will be uniquely dedicated to new works of graphical literature. (Full disclosure: First Second has hired me to edit a book project due in 2008.) Unlike previous ventures into the graphic novel medium by traditional publishers, which tended to be more like timid toe-dips into an unfamiliar pond, First Second has an ambitious and smart lineup...