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HIGHLIGHTS Ivy champ Princeton, the nation’s last undefeated Division I team, falls to Harvard in double overtime. Crimson suffers narrow one-goal defeats to national semifinalist Penn State and NCAA champion Portland...
...Face Mike Tyson showed up at a prefight press conference with a tattoo on his battered mug, a Maori-inspired abstraction that nearly encircles his left eye. "I didn't like the way my face was looking," Tyson said by way of explanation. Whatever. He may not be heavyweight champ anymore, but he could still put the hurt on anybody who makes fun of his new look. Which is why we would never, ever do that...
...world's next superstar. Despite his size - he's 2 m and weighs 114 kg - the long-limbed Klitschko is surprisingly light on his feet, but packs a wicked punch. His chief competition for ring mastery ring comes from his brother Vitaly, 31, who will challenge Lennox Lewis, heavyweight champ of the World Boxing Council (the best-known of the four major boxing organizations) early next year. They are the most promising sibling pugilists since the Sullivan brothers of the early 20th century. Despite the glory he has won in the ring, Klitschko is quick to stress that boxing...
...Sports Illustrated (SI) write-up reads, “Most varsity teams of any school (41); hockey finished No. 13; Ivy Champ [football] team had its first perfect season (9-0) since...
...share to 13.2% in 2001, up a point and a half since 1998, according to industry research group Technomic. (Perennial runner-up Burger King's share dropped to 18.5% from 20.4% during the same period.) Heightened competition from the likes of Subway, which has dethroned McDonald's as nationwide champ in total stores with 13,101, has added to the McWoes. Subs and other custom-made sandwiches are growing 12% a year as a fast-food category vs. a paltry 2% to 3% for burgers. Meanwhile, a range of upstart "fast casual" restaurants such as Panera Bread and Baja Fresh...