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With so many nations vying for respect, it's no surprise that international politics often plays a role in scoring disputes. A botched 1972 U.S.-Soviet basketball game briefly heated up the Cold War when a disputed time-out and a wrongly reset clock effectively handed the Soviets three chances to beat their political rivals. They did, by a single point. The Soviets got the gold, and the U.S. team angrily refused the silver. Thirty years later, when Russia found itself with an embarrassingly small number of medals in 2002's Salt Lake City Games, the Duma blamed U.S. imperialism...
...captain Jeremy Lin knocked the rebound away as the clock expired and Harvard escaped with the victory...
...Keith Wright retained the Harvard possession, diving to the floor to force a jump ball. With the possession arrow facing the Crimson bench, Harvard drew up an inbounds play for Curry. But the point guard was forced to rush his shot with just five seconds left on the shot clock and his layup attempt went off target...
Unfortunately for No. 11 Harvard (1-1), the last few seconds on the clock would wind down without another tally, as the No. 14 Hoyas (1-1) held on to win the game, 13-12, in a matchup of two nationally-ranked teams yesterday afternoon at Georgetown. The game was the Crimson’s first televised contest of the season...
...Crimson’s sophomore duo of attack Kevin Vaughan and midfielder Terry White then contributed the last two late-game goals with 24 and 15 seconds remaining on the clock, respectively. Harvard’s offensive spurt toward the end of the game put Harvard within striking distance of Georgetown, but it proved to be too late...