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March Madness, that postseason basketball binge of million-dollar sponsorships under the guise of amateur athletics, is upon us once again. The players at Caltech, who compete in the NCAA's Division III, its lowest rung, will never get an invite to that party. Playoffs? Caltech coach Roy Dow is looking for kids who can hang on to the ball. The team just finished 1-24 and, for the 23rd straight season, failed to win a game in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The legendary science-and-engineering school may have 31 Nobel Prize winners to its name...
Just eight of Caltech's 15 players even played on their high school hoops team. And if they gain any attention on the court now, it's just for being part of a spectacular losing tradition; the team and their coach are featured in a strangely inspiring documentary, Quantum Hoops, which will be out on dvd this spring...
...class of the Ivy League, winning a combined 19 straight Ivy League titles. Last weekend marked the first time that Harvard swept the “Killer P’s” since 1987. “Two good wins, needed wins, home wins,” head coach Tommy Amaker said. “[It was a] good weekend for a lot of different reasons, and [I have got] a positive feeling about our kids as we try to finish out this stretch of the season.”A strong finish will not come easily...
Crimson football coach Tim Murphy, who arrived at Harvard less than a decade into Orleans’ tenure, said that it is the League’s presidents, not its director, who represent the biggest roadblock to playoff football in the Ivy League...
...league-leader Cornell (17-6, 9-1) faces the Crimson. Tonight, Harvard faces the challenge of fourth-place Columbia (9-15, 6-4)—a contest of equal importance.“We’re taking it one game at a time,” coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “Saturday’s game is not more important than Friday’s game for us.”Harvard heads into this double header as winners of three straight games and eight of its last nine. Last weekend saw Harvard record...