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...added 10 digs.Despite the strong individual efforts, the Crimson was unable to overcome a strong Midshipmen attack and dropped below .500 for the first time this season.AMERICAN 3, HARVARD 1If there is such thing as a good loss, perhaps this was it for the Crimson. Facing the eventual tournament champion and heavy favorite, Harvard stole the first game and played the Eagles close throughout before falling, 3-1 (25-30, 30-20, 30-23, 30-24).American boasted a pair of 6’8 twins, Claire and Ann Recht, as well as 2006 Patriot League Player of the Year...
...freshman Alexei Chijoff-Evans, who, in his first collegiate tennis experience, won his singles bracket with three consecutive three-set victories. The Crimson was a strong presence among the tournament’s nine separate singles brackets and four separate doubles brackets, an unusual format in which no ultimate champion was determined and 16-player brackets were labeled by color. “I was really happy with the way everyone competed,” junior co-captain Chris Clayton said. “Even when people lost, they went down swinging.” But it was Chijoff-Evans...
Tomorrow’s game will be the Crimson’s first test against an opponent—save for a 48-6 win in a scrimmage against Columbia last week—since last November’s 34-13 thrashing at the hands of co-Ivy champion and preseason favorite Yale...
...rookie driver, strung together five podium finishes in a row, the best start to a season by any debutant driver. At the Canadian Grand Prix in June, the Briton took his first chequered flag. And following two more Grand Prix wins, Hamilton and his Spanish teammate - current World Champion Fernando Alonso - head into this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix in the top two slots in the drivers' championship; in the race for the constructors' title, the team was streets ahead...
...been proven today." And sanctioning the team, but not the drivers who represent it, has befuddled some inside the industry. "I'm not promoting the idea of taking points away from drivers, but it doesn't sound very logical," says Jackie Stewart, a three-time Formula One World Champion and former team boss. "The governing body is suggesting that information had been transferred to the benefit of McLaren; why else be eliminated from the constructors' championship...