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...were really on top of things. We had to play a little bit better because of the clay, and we did," said Derek Brown, who gave a solid performance at the fourth-singles spot...
...expected Zimmerman would have a tough match, but it was really even," agreed Albert Chang, who defeated the Lions' Steve Heroux at sixth singles quickly and decisively, 6-2, 6-1. "The home court advantage really helped Columbia. Michael wasn't fond of the clay...
...home court factor was influential Saturday. Columbia has the only clay courts in college tennis, and the courts are located in "a bubble" with no seats for the fans...
Like R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe (or maybe it was Flannery O'Connor), I have red clay in my veins, and being in Cambridge--so far from the South--makes me lachrymose and weepy. All of us need to be more sensitive, though, if we are to make the South a place worthy of living. Arnetta C. Girardeau...
...where they don't need irrigation water and where the black loam used to stretch like a carpet from horizon to horizon, you top a hill and find the brown claw marks of a monster that has scoured off the land's precious mantle, leaving the gummy, less productive clay showing in streaks. The monster is erosion, brought on by poor farming...