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...added 10 digs.Despite the strong individual efforts, the Crimson was unable to overcome a strong Midshipmen attack and dropped below .500 for the first time this season.AMERICAN 3, HARVARD 1If there is such thing as a good loss, perhaps this was it for the Crimson. Facing the eventual tournament champion and heavy favorite, Harvard stole the first game and played the Eagles close throughout before falling, 3-1 (25-30, 30-20, 30-23, 30-24).American boasted a pair of 6’8 twins, Claire and Ann Recht, as well as 2006 Patriot League Player of the Year...
Tomorrow’s game will be the Crimson’s first test against an opponent—save for a 48-6 win in a scrimmage against Columbia last week—since last November’s 34-13 thrashing at the hands of co-Ivy champion and preseason favorite Yale...
...rookie driver, strung together five podium finishes in a row, the best start to a season by any debutant driver. At the Canadian Grand Prix in June, the Briton took his first chequered flag. And following two more Grand Prix wins, Hamilton and his Spanish teammate - current World Champion Fernando Alonso - head into this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix in the top two slots in the drivers' championship; in the race for the constructors' title, the team was streets ahead...
...been proven today." And sanctioning the team, but not the drivers who represent it, has befuddled some inside the industry. "I'm not promoting the idea of taking points away from drivers, but it doesn't sound very logical," says Jackie Stewart, a three-time Formula One World Champion and former team boss. "The governing body is suggesting that information had been transferred to the benefit of McLaren; why else be eliminated from the constructors' championship...
Harvard begins the season attempting to recover from the loss of four-time singlehanded champion Clay Johnson ’07 to graduation. The A-division team of captain skipper Kyle Kovacs and senior crew Elyse Dolbec becomes the Crimson’s new top tandem, in what Dolbec described as “a bit of a rebuilding year...