Word: championed
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...Dartmouth, Harvard baseball coach Joe Walsh knew he needed to play the percentages.It wasn’t an easy call. After all, his starter—freshman ace Conner Hulse—had handed him a gem, striking out six over 8 1/3 innings against the Rolfe Division champion Big Green.But with one out in the ninth inning of the last league game of the season for the Crimson, Walsh wanted the lefty-lefty matchup against Santomauro, bringing in rookie Will Keuper to face the junior slugger.For a brief second, it looked like the wrong move. Santomauro connected?...
...Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub was filled with freshman last night at the first Annual Freshman Spelling Bee. With former Howard Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion George A. Thampy ’10 presiding as emcee, spellers and audience members gathered for a night of pizza bagels, french fries, and multisyllabic words. The Freshman Dean’s Office-organized event was an intramural competition that attracted 22 freshman spellers who had the chance to bring 100 points and glory to their respective dorms. According to Thampy, the competition included words that were accessible to spelling neophytes...
...documentary, like any movie trying to hold your attention, needs either a big theme - some tremendous political injustice will do - or a magnetic character that keeps people watching. Tyson has character to spare, since its subject and star is the two-time heavyweight champion and three-year guest of the Indiana penal system. In boxing, "the sweet science," he was the Frankenstein monster...
Polls don’t mean much when it comes to determining champions, but when the No. 2 men’s lightweight crew takes to the water tomorrow in New Haven, Conn., for the Goldthwait Cup against No. 1 Princeton and No. 4 Yale, the stage will undoubtedly be set for one of the nation’s most exciting dual races of the year. The three schools enter tomorrow’s race not only as three of the top four ranked crews in the country, but they also sport a combined 18-1 record in dual racing...
...could have sold tickets: Bernie Madoff approaching Donald Trump in Palm Beach, asking whether Trump would like to invest some money with him. The Donald, as he recalls in his new book, Think Like a Champion, said no. He also calls Madoff "a scoundrel without par." And refers to himself as "a genius." For those who see Trump's blazing self-confidence as a perfect antidote for these depressing, recession-wracked times, the Donald also continues to buoy spirits with his hit NBC series, The Apprentice. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Trump at his Trump Tower office in Manhattan...