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...school where brains trump brawn, where final exams take precedence over national championships, and where a play by William Shakespeare is often a bigger draw than a play by Crimson back Steven Williams, there is one annual anomaly that brings the Harvard student body together in the name of sports: The Game.The final whistle’s sound each November cements the memories. Thanks to a league ban on postseason playoffs, there is no chance to change history—no conference title contest, bowl game, or national championship. The memories linger with coaches, players, and fans?...
...Harvard sailing team, senior Kyle Kovacs finally got a chance to step into the spotlight. And boy, did he shine. The former captain of the Crimson squad racked up honor after honor in his final season, capping the fall campaign with a victory at the NEISA Singlehanded Championship. With the departure of his longtime training partner Clay Johnson ’07, a four-time winner of the NEISA singlehanded event, Kovacs stepped up admirably and kept the title in Cambridge for the ninth straight year. “It was pretty exciting to win the New England Singlehanded Championship...
...dated Brazilian übermodels. In fact, they seemed to feel that Boston fans were just a little bit entitled (imagine that!), unbearably smug and boastful when their teams won, and sulky and defensive when they didn’t.It was earth-shattering, to learn that outside my safe, championship-filled Massachusetts bubble my people could be viewed in such a light. But as difficult as it was to learn that not everybody thought like me, soon something even scarier happened: I learned that some of the people who didn’t think like me might be right?...
Sometimes it’s just obvious when a coach has a major impact. In his four years in charge of the Harvard women’s golf team, Kevin Rhoads has changed the face of the program. This year, the Crimson won the Ivy League Championship for the first time in its history. “Our goal was to win the Ivies and he led us to that,” sophomore Claire Sheldon said. “He’s been instrumental in our success.” The title came after a long, four-year...
...dominating win over Yale, which capped off his fourth Ivy championship, was the conclusion of a long journey for Murphy and his team through a difficult year...