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...back. We made some tough fouls and we didn’t connect well. We had everything we wanted for the whole season in our hands and we let it slip away.” With its loss to Yale, Harvard nonetheless earns the status of Ivy League champion. Instead of sole ownership, however, the Crimson must share its 10th conference title with Cornell and Dartmouth.Both of those teams entered the weekend tied for second in the league, and after winning their respective games, both teams now share a piece of the championship. On Saturday Cornell...
...American came up short in the finals, losing 5-4 to Penn’s Cesar Grajales. “Sometimes you have to face hurdles,” O’Connor said. “But my goal is still the same, to be a national champion.” Freshman Corey Jantzen, the No. 4 seed at 141 lbs, gave perhaps the most promising performance, making good on his ranking by taking fourth in the weight class in remarkable fashion. Jantzen earned a fall in his first round bout in only 24 seconds before defeating Cornell?...
...head coach Tommy Amaker said. “And certainly that’s not a good combination—not scoring and then not defending.”It was a sign of bad things to come–more specifically, of the dismal matchup with now conference-champion Cornell that ended with a score of 86-53 and the clipping of a championship net for the Big Red. “The students came out and made it a good atmosphere,” Amaker said of the Cornell fans. “They got it going...
Bill James, the legendary baseball stat guru and godfather of the data-driven "Moneyball" movement that has changed how front offices evaluate players, has written a new book, The Bill James Gold Mine 2008. TIME's Sean Gregory caught up with James, now a senior advisor to the world champion Boston Red Sox, from the team's spring training facility in Fort Myers, Fla., to talk about the state of analytics in baseball, the Roger Clemens steroids controversy, and whether a certain New York Yankees star looks like Henry Fonda...
...people felt like they had been counted out from time to time and had to keep fighting and coming back. I was endorsed on Saturday in Youngstown - a city that has had a pretty rough ride over the last three or so decades by Kelly "the Ghost" Pavlik, the champion [middleweight boxer], and I think that really symbolized what I was trying to do, which was to tell people I would be a fighter for them, because I know that they deserve to have someone who gets up every day and works hard for them. And questions began...