Word: chris
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...came into the weekend knowing that the Ivy League title was essentially out of reach. But that didn’t seem to affect the Crimson’s level of play.“To a certain extent, it is personal,” sophomore Chris Clayton said. “There is pride on the line, regardless of the records.”With the end of his collegiate career in sight—and playing in his final match on Harvard’s courts—co-captain Gideon Valkin elevated his game even further, coasting...
Being a fan helps with the tricky business of winning over fanboys of established franchises, who tend to be a protective bunch. When Chris Weitz was tapped to direct this fall's His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass, an adaptation of the first book in Philip Pullman's fantasy series, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, the About a Boy director made the mistake of going online and reading a poll of fan reaction. "I had just barely beaten 'nobody' as the person who would be the best director for the series," says Weitz, who eventually invited some fans onto...
...different story altogether. In 2001, he inherited a program in shambles. Despite amassing a 10-6 record in the Big Ten in his second year in Ann Arbor, the Wolverines were not eligible for postseason play because of a rules violation that dated back to the days of Chris Webber and the Fab Five...
...Okay, so it’s not quite the same. But Amaker did coach at Michigan just a decade after the Fab Five played there. And it was just three years before Amaker’s 2002 arrival that we saw the release of the underrated debut album from Chris Webber under the moniker “C. Webb...
...turn a 3-2 lead into a 4-3 win. Junior Dan Nguyen, playing at No. 3, saw three sets worth of work fade away in minutes along with Harvard’s hope of winning, as he dropped his tiebreak, 7-2.Playing two courts over, No. 1 sophomore Chris Clayton turned a 1-4 deficit in the tiebreak into a 7-4 match victory with six consecutive points, but lost his chance to be the Crimson’s hero after Nguyen’s quick, frustrating loss.A dejected Nguyen blamed his frustrating tiebreak performance on an overly aggressive transition...