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...seeming more and more likely to offer the most captivating matchup of all: Harvard and Yale, with the Ivy championship hanging in the balance...
Tomorrow’s game is the penultimate obstacle the Crimson must overcome in its march towards the showdown with Yale and a possible Ivy League championship...
...might pay to a car accident—as much as you want to avert your eyes from the fiery wreckage of yet another Ramirez base-running blunder or J-pap victory dance, you are physically unable to. But over the course of the Red Sox’s championship run, it dawned on us that while the media might lampoon—sometimes affectionately, sometimes not—Manny’s space-cadet qualities or Papelbon’s meat-headed antics and deranged stare-down glare, their words are both inspirational and chock-full of invaluable wisdom...
...Boston Red Sox were about to clinch their second World Series championship in 89 years, the agent for Alex Rodriguez, who may go down as the best baseball player of all time, announced that his client was opting out of the final three years of his New York Yankee contract to become a free agent. After the game, the Sox couldn't sip their champagne without answering questions about A-Rod. It was the coronation of an eight-month march: spring training, a 162-game regular season, seven straight post-season victories. And there was A-Rod crashing the party...
...favorite Sox are the Dropkick Murphys, the Celtic punk band who played their ass-kicking anthem, "I'm Shipping Up to Boston," on the Fenway grass before Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, accompanied by teenaged Irish step dancers. After the Sox 11-2 annihilation of the Indians that night, Papelbon stripped down and did his own Irish step-dancing in the infield: Riverdance in underpants...