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...number 10 seed in the NCAA tournament, NCAA Player of the Year Andre U. Akpan ’10 scores 10 goals in three games to lead the Crimson men’s soccer team to the Final Four. The squad bows out to number one seed (and eventual champion) Virginia, 2-1, in penalty kicks. The Virginia Cavaliers’ head coach calls the game, “the Game,” angering Yalies everywhere. From then on, Harvard will have two playings of “the Game” and Bulldogs will only have one. Booyah...
...same food, bench-pressing the same 400 pounds. Even if Oden brings Ohio State a championship in April, he won’t have given the Buckeye nation as much as it will surely have given him. The same cannot be said for Dawson or Cusworth or world champion fencer Emily Cross or our Olympian women’s hockey players, for that matter. So, while I would love to get to cover a Final Four run, or a bowl game, I’ll take living, growing, and learning with the athletes that I’m covering. Here?...
...presented the award, Eric S. Chivian ’64, later called the environmentalists’ criticisms of Charles “a rather low blow that really missed the point of the entire award.” “He’s really been an environmental champion, and rather than focus on his flight, they should have focused on his achievements,” Chivian said in an interview yesterday. Former Vice President Al Gore ’69, last year’s winner, introduced Charles before helping present the award. Gore praised the prince...
...fond of the idea of cities using pro sports franchises to validate their self-worth; there are too many Super Bowl champion towns out there whose schools, economies and infrastructures remain mired in the cellar. But in this instance, Indianapolis can probably be excused for seeking affirmation on the NFL stage - if only because the shadow to the north that it's lived under for so long has been such a, well, a bear...
...Bedelia’s repeated blunders is pure fictive fantasy: No real-life employer would stand to have their house “dusted” with extra helpings of powder over every available surface. Amelia Bedelia keeps her job by virtue of a valuable non-verbal skill: world-champion baking prowess, which she shrewdly parlays into Mr. and Mrs. Rogers’s favorite dessert, lemon meringue pie. When she’s in trouble, she knows on her own exactly what to do— pop a pastry into the oven—but this is sadly...