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...prestigious event in professional poker. Last week, after a 117-day recess, 22-year-old Danish pro Peter Eastgate captured the title, defeating 27-year-old Russian Ivan Demidov by turning a straight on the final hand to beat Demidov's two pairs. Eastgate, the youngest main event champion in history, earned $9.1 million for his efforts-the second largest prize the tournament has ever doled out. On his way back to Europe, he caught up with TIME for a brief phone interview...
...goal in the fifth minute of overtime bring its hopes of an Ivy championship to an end. With the 1-0 victory, Penn (11-2-4, 5-1-1) moved into first place in the league table on the final day of the season. Dartmouth, who beat defending champion Brown, 2-0, on Saturday, will also take home a share of the crown.Harvard now finds itself in the same place as it was this time last year: without a trophy, and desperately hoping for a spot in the tournament.Yesterday’s match was originally scheduled for Saturday night...
...lived in the fantasy world created by so-called “experts,” right now everybody would be talking about how President-elect Hillary Clinton, fresh off her defeat of Mitt Romney, was going to throw out the first pitch at the World Series champion Chicago Cubs’ first home game next season...
Even though it is the reigning Ivy League champion, the Harvard women’s basketball team is hungry for more. The team ended last year with its second consecutive Ancient Eight title, but was forced to share the crown with Dartmouth and Cornell. Now the Crimson is looking for revenge after falling to Dartmouth as part of the three-team playoff and missing out on the Big Dance...
After winning the Ivy title last Saturday with an astounding double-overtime victory over defending champion Columbia, the Crimson is now set to take the next step: compete in the regionals of the 2008 NCAA Tournament. Harvard (10-3-4, 5-1-1 Ivy) will play Northeastern (13-8-1) in the first round in Chesnut Hill, Mass. on Friday. The game starts at 7 p.m. The Crimson will be riding an eight-game unbeaten streak into the match. Paced by a tremendous group of goal-scorers atop and a dynamic duo of goaltenders in juniors Lauren Mann and Laura...