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...spring break,” Kharrazi said. “We trained here over spring break. When everyone empties out of campus, we stick around and train.” Though the lightweights came close to achieving a clean sweep, the results of their races where a lot closer compared to the team’s blowout margins of victory in 2008. The last time these crews faced one another, the Black and White swept all three races by at least ten seconds, with the Novice Eight winning by an impressive 18 seconds. Yesterday marked the first dual-race...
...6-0.HARVARD 7, SANTA CLARA 0After two days off, the Crimson did not lose focus in preparation for the Broncos (7-8), shutting out Santa Clara 7-0. The match marked the first shutout victory for Harvard in over two years. “[The win] really brought us closer together and got everybody excited about the rest of the season,” Green said.To make the occasion even sweeter, the Crimson did not drop a set on the day for the first time since the spring opener against Boston University in 2006.After the Crimson swept the doubles point, Harvard...
Borrowing a trick from MLS, the teams will also play in cozier venues. "For fans it's a more intimate, authentic soccer experience when you're closer to the field, instead of in cavernous environment," says Antonucci. "Plus, it doesn't cost as much to operate and staff a smaller facility." For example, in the WUSA the Washington Freedom played in RFK Stadium, the former home of the Washington Redskins and their 50,000 crazed fans. Now, the Freedom will play at a 5,200-seat soccer complex in Maryland...
...think there's any question we will integrate Twitter pre-game, half-time and post-game," says Antonucci. "We want to be known as a league that innovates and stays current with communication mediums. It's a way that our fans can get closer to the experience, closer to the athletes, and it's a low-cost way to do that, which is very important for a new league watching its bottom-line very closely...
...courtroom a much thinner man after more than two months in detention. Chen was known during his eight years in office for irritating China with his open support for a greater Taiwanese independence from the mainland. Taiwan's current President Ma Ying-jeou has moved quickly to forge closer economic ties with China since his election last year. Taiwan and China have since opened up tourism, palace museum exchanges, direct charter flights and are planning to discuss further economic agreements this year. (Read TIME's conversation with Ma Ying-jeou...