Word: championed
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...like a boy." (Today, it's Yohji Yamamoto black leggings, black T shirt, charcoal ribbed cashmere sweater and a phenomenally oversize jeweled cross.) Partway through college at Sarah Lawrence, she left for Paris, presumably to study, but it was really to hang out with her then boyfriend, an Olympic champion. She waited to get married until she was "39 and 7/8," she says. "Just under the wire." It was while scouting for wedding dresses and finding nothing remotely up to snuff that her father said, "'These are really pretty ugly,'" Wang recalls. "He said, 'I'll back...
It’s been 18 years since a team repeated as Ivy champion, but no squad has appeared as poised to do so as Yale, returning 17 starters from last season’s titlists...
...football fan who’s paid a lick of attention to the first three weeks of college football this season would know, I-AA teams have made a real statement. A stunning 34-32 victory by Appalachian State, last season’s I-AA champion, over then-No. 5 Michigan was only the first of several victories by I-AA teams over I-A opponents so far this year. Nicholls State also downed Rice, while New Hampshire defeated Marshall...
...freshman Alexei Chijoff-Evans, who, in his first collegiate tennis experience, won his singles bracket with three consecutive three-set victories. The Crimson was a strong presence among the tournament’s nine separate singles brackets and four separate doubles brackets, an unusual format in which no ultimate champion was determined and 16-player brackets were labeled by color. “I was really happy with the way everyone competed,” junior co-captain Chris Clayton said. “Even when people lost, they went down swinging.” But it was Chijoff-Evans...
...said. “We have asked a lot of them this past week...and they have come through with flying colors.” Harvard will rest for a few days before leaving the comforts of its home field to take on Loyola Marymount and the defending national champion, No. 9 UC Santa Barbara, next weekend in California. HARVARD 2, UMASS 1 With the exception of a late-game hiccup, Harvard put in a solid two-goal effort and got an impressive outing from goaltender Adam Hahn that proved to be enough for the win against Massachusetts yesterday afternoon...