Word: championed
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Hopes were high for the young Harvard women’s soccer team following its Ivy opening victory over Penn last Sunday. But after two consecutive defeats this week, capped by the team’s 1-0 loss to defending league champion Yale on Saturday, the squad seems to have come back down to earth. “We put together ninety good minutes with the exception of one bad lapse,” captain Laura Odorczyk said. “It’s a disappointment today.” The Crimson...
...event is the distance event. It’s all about pacing yourself and finishing the whole dozen. The women’s event is the finale; the sprint, how quickly can you stuff your face.” And stuff they did. The men’s champion said he was drawn to the grueling—and drooling—sport because “I’m a big eater anyway, so I thought, why not give this a shot.” Lane added that he’s training for an eating contest...
...DIED. Mickey Hargitay, 80, hunky Budapest-born athlete who rose to fame as a champion bodybuilder and actor whose films included Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, co-starring his then wife, screen siren Jayne Mansfield; in Los Angeles. In the mid-'50s the newly anointed Mr. Universe caught the eye of an aging Mae West, who hired him as one of eight loincloth-clad musclemen in her popular nightclub revue. He met Mansfield at a performance, where the impressed star is said to have told a waiter, "I'll have a steak and the man on the left...
...understanding, even recently, that we would be at least able to get through the season in our current facilities,” says 2006 NCAA individual champion Benjamin Ungar. “But the way I understand it now from the rumors is that we won’t even be able to do that, which will certainly make it difficult to even have a shot at defending the title...
...Right now, at least, we don’t really know what’s going on in terms of the fencing team,” says two-time Junior Worlds champion fencer Emily Cross. “The only way I heard was through Harvard publications...