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...game for us and gave us the confidence we needed for the rest of the season,” captain Erik Grimm said months later, “to know that we could beat anybody.”It would be the only game that Brown, the eventual Ivy champion, would lose all year. And it would take its place on the long list of legendary Harvard comebacks.Fans might be well served to mark the time—Sept. 23, 2006—and the place—Providence, R.I.—on their fall calendars...
...college level isn’t really a surprise, because while she was new to Harvard, she was hardly new to competitive squash. Accepted into the class of 2008, Lorentzen opted to take a year off to play internationally. A four-time under-19 U.S. Junior National Champion, Lorentzen spent her year off playing in several Junior Opens and training abroad. In July of 2005, she reached the quarterfinals of the World Junior Squash Championships individual tournament and was a member of the fourth-place U.S. team. She also competed in the qualifying rounds of the Harvard-hosted U.S. Open...
...about peaking at the right time, and after this weekend, no one knows it better than the Harvard lightweights.The varsity eight put its fourth-place finish at Eastern Sprints behind it, adopting a more aggressive strategy to come within 0.076 seconds of taking home the national title.Eastern Sprints champion Cornell won the gold medal with a time of 5:42.71, just edging the Crimson’s 5:42.79.But despite the disappointment of barely missing out on first place, Harvard’s rowers were ecstatic about the crew’s turnaround...
...rodeo circuit. He was a Professional Rodeo Man of the Year in 1980 and was installed in the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City in 1984. Baldrige once appeared on the television game show To Tell the Truth pretending to be rodeo tie-down roping champion Dean Oliver." The cowboy businessman and the Harlem civil rights worker - each man was the embodiment of their party's best strains...
Much as we try, we can't stophumanizing our horses. This one's got the heart of a champion; that one has the guts of a mudder. We don't really know if there's anything behind all that anthropomorphizing. But we do know that a horse can suffer as we do--feeling pain, fear, confusion and shock. All of that was on display at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md., when Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro shattered his right rear leg at the Preakness Stakes just moments out of the gate. It was the most stunning racehorse disaster since...