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...attended the University of Indiana, where he played rugby and bought a nightclub that he named Motley's. He says he had to shut down the bar when authorities discovered that the winner of an in-house wet T-shirt contest was a 16-year-old girl on probation for prostitution...
...with a 1-0 double-overtime victory over Hofstra in the Colonial Athletic Association championship game last week. So while the teams were mentally prepared for the extra sessions, their play lacked the crispness that was on display earlier in the game.“It was a physical contest at the end of a long season,” Harvard coach Ray Leone said. As the final minutes of regulation and overtime wore on, fatigue was palpable on both sides. It didn’t help that a few minutes of steady rain in the second overtime period were...
...Gordon was up to the task, corralling the ball with a brilliant diving save.“It was a great save, she put a good kick on it, the keeper got a bead on it,” Leone said. “It’s a contest, that’s all it is, and they won it.”Then came the controversy. After Mann made a diving stop, and freshman Patricia Yau and junior Lizzy Nichols converted for the Crimson, the score was knotted at 2-2. Northeastern stepped up for its third attempt...
...front of 7,352 mostly hostile fans that keeps Harvard atop the Ivy standings and puts a share of the Ivy title on the line for the Crimson in The Game.The pick would never have been necessary without a furious Penn comeback that made a snoozer into a thrilling contest. After the Crimson converted one of Barnes’ interceptions into a 20-yard field goal by junior kicker Patrick Long to make the score 17-0 with 6:55 remaining in the third quarter, the Quakers offense came to life. Statistically among the worst units in the Ivy League...
...living up to our reputation as Minnesota - our brand," Ritchie says. "Accuracy is the only measurement by which we can determine who won this election." Ritchie does not expect the recount to be completed until at least Dec. 19. If the results are a tie, the contest could be decided by a coin toss...