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However, this isn’t meant to take anything away from our regular season Ivy champion Princeton Tigers, who put up a sporting effort before “fading into Bolivian” down the stretch, falling to the South Region’s third-seed Texas. (I flat out refuse to refer to the brackets by regional sites, unless they’re humorous to say. On my short list would be Hygiene, Colo., Dry Prong, La. and Pysht, Wash...
Mazzoleni thinks the “favorite” label belongs to Colgate, the top seed and regular season champion. “They should be,” he said. “They’ve proven it over the long haul...
...undoubtedly the best animated feature released in 2003. Sylvain Chomet’s film aims for a multinational texture and is largely devoid of dialogue, but nevertheless retains a distinctly French sensibility with a penchant for shrewd cultural allusions. A clubfooted widow, Madame Souza, trains her chubby grandson Champion to become a stick-thin cyclist with the help of bulky canine Bruno and her restless whistle. One day, Champion is mysteriously kidnapped, along with two of his fellow Tour de France riders, by amusingly ominous members of the French mafia. In hot pursuit, Madame Souza travels to the Dionysian metropolis...
Colgate also received prominent awards. Interim head coach Stan Moore, who guided the Raiders to a 21-11-5 record and the Cleary Cup as the ECAC’s regular season champion, was named coach of the year and Jon Smyth was honored as the league’s Best Defensive Forward...
Since he finished third in this year’s EIWA tournament after losing to Penn’s Doug McGraw—the conference champion and the 10-seed in the national tournament—Meltzer may have missed his chance to get a tournament seed, though he is ranked...