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...Reid's first major test is this month's ASEAN Football Championship, also known as the Suzuki Cup, which Thailand is co-hosting with Indonesia. Before taking the job, he had only visited Thailand twice. He first went in 1984 with Everton, which had just won the F.A. Cup. He was 28. "It was a bit of a piss-up," he recalls, "but we played a couple of matches." Two decades of breakneck growth has transformed Bangkok, although for Reid some things have stayed the same. "Don't talk to me about the f___ing traffic," he growls...
Maybe it’s because the team made a fairy tale-like turnaround last year to make the title game of the ECAC Championship tournament that a certain passion to win each and every game is missing. Perhaps the belief that the team can rely on (and will pull out) a miraculous late-season turnaround is the explanation for the lack of desire needed for winning games...
...semifinal performance Saturday morning, when the young grappler overcame his second top-five wrestler, this time with a fall. Drouin lasted only 2:02, setting the stage for the sophomore’s final dominant performance. Despite the near-pin against Nauman, Jantzen jumped out to an 8-0 championship lead, leaving little doubt that the sophomore has arrived on the national stage...
...first move is in Bangkok, site of the world chess championship. Freddie Trumper, the loud American champion (Jonathan J. Carpenter ’07) prepares to face his Russian opponent Anatoly Sergievsky (Adam M. Lathram ’10) amid a politically tense atmosphere. Everyone, it seems, is a secret agent—or could be. When Freddie rashly accuses Anatoly of cheating, the game is suspended for negotiations. Meanwhile, Florence Vassy (Morgan L. Mallory ’10), Freddie’s Hungarian-American second, leaves her underappreciated role by Freddie’s side and instead begins...
...vaulting.” Weiler entered his freshman year at Harvard with an impressive resume. Not only was he the 2006 Under-18 World Champion, but he also set the Under-18 World record for the event. Additionally, he was named NSIC All-American twice and won the state championship in California in both 2007 and 2008. The rookie has shown a lot of promise and certainly has a shot at attending the track and field national championships this year—not to mention what he may accomplish over four years. “He?...