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...SCION OF A CAR-racing family and the first Brit to win the World Rally Championship road race, Colin McRae was famous for his ability to walk away from peril. Aggressive and flamboyant, he was dubbed "McCrash" for his rolls, wrecks and wins in such competitions as the X Games, the Paris-to-Dakar rally and the Race of Champions. But there were no survivors last weekend when the helicopter that McRae was piloting crashed near his home in Lanark, Scotland. McRae, his son Johnny, 5, and two others died in the blaze. McRae...
...coach and a team who want nothing less than a championship banner, it will be an enormous step in deciding whether this season will end in glory or disappointment. Mahon, however, is confident of her team’s chances at bringing home an Ivy League title...
...when Randolph Turpin took on Sugar Ray Robinson for the middleweight crown of the world. This was doubly surprising, insofar as the mixed-race Englishman was boxing for a country where, just four years earlier, blacks - even if British-born - were not allowed to compete for the national championship. When Turpin pulled off a remarkable upset against the highly favored American - only Robinson's second loss in 135 fights - he seemed more than ever an emblem of the so-called British bulldog spirit. Within four years, though, he was facing rape charges in New York and being described...
...Akpan made the final cut for the U-20 World Cup team, and helped supply the pressure that caused an own-goal against Uruguay in their Round of Sixteen game. The Grand Prairie native also helped his club team, the Dallas Texans 88 Red, to earn the youth national championship, and was recently selected as Ivy League Player of the Week. This season has also seen other Crimson players in the national spotlight. Junior Michael Fucito was named to Top Drawer Soccer’s Team of the Week, as well as the Ivy League Honor Roll along with...
...Harvard will need all the consistency it can muster this coming weekend, as it heads to Princeton to play in a tournament featuring the rival Tigers as well as Ivy League foes Columbia and Yale. Down the road, on Oct. 6 and 7, comes the all-important ECAC Championship. —Staff writer Jonathan B. Steinman can be reached at steinman@fas.harvard.edu...