Word: championed
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...Zornow ’08 made the journey in reverse—not to find the precious metal, but having won it. Zornow, a.k.a. DJ Shiftee, returned to the States Monday, carrying a golden plaque, an oversized check for $10,000—and the title of world DJ champion, having conquered the world’s turntables...
...weekend,” Rhoads said. “She punctuated the end of our first round, and I was very happy for her.” Sheldon’s second-round score of 77 was good enough to make her the tournament’s individual champion by six strokes. The difference in performance was, according to Sheldon, due to her short game: she only needed 27 putts on Saturday but totaled 36 on Sunday. This win is the second of the year for Harvard, having finished on top at the Dartmouth Invitational in September. The team encountered...
...rush to recruit then? First and foremost, it's the pressure on coaches to win because the rewards are rich: Billy Donovan, coach of the national-champion Florida Gators, signed a new six-year contract that will pay him about $3.5 million annually. Thad Matta, coach of runner-up Ohio State, who already has a commitment from a 10th-grader, has a $2.5 million yearly paycheck. "Look at the rising salaries, the firings, the arms race for facilities development," says Rick Boyages, an associate commissioner of the Mid-American Conference and a former college coach. "The competition and marketplace...
...ground for the pros. The current leader in the Formula One drivers' championship, rookie Lewis Hamilton, 22, first picked up speed piloting karts as an 8-year-old. And he's not alone, even on his Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team. Hamilton's teammate and rival at McLaren, current world champion Fernando Alonso, started out racing the mini machines too. In fact, almost all of today's Formula One drivers, as well as past greats like Brazilian Ayrton Senna and Germany's Michael Schumacher, owe a debt to the experience first gained in a small plastic bucket seat...
...House masters’ kitchen. This practice may have medieval feast written all over it, but the pheasant roaster was the modern-day Michael Pavloff ’88, one of the handful of former and current Harvardians who view food as a potentially full-time endeavor. A former champion of amateur cooking, Pavloff says that pheasant remains his favorite dish to this day. “It has a lot of fond memories of Harvard associated with it,” he says. Although he began cooking while living at home, Pavloff delved into French cuisine after he enrolled...