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...tough to go out and get beat like we are everyday,” captain Matt Vance said. “This has not been the best of weeks for us.”Against UC Riverside, the Crimson kept the score close for most of the contest. A four-run Highlander explosion in the sixth, however, put the game out of reach. In the first game of the series against San Diego, the Crimson lost 7-2 after All-American Brian Matusz struck out 16 Harvard batters. The Toreros routed the Crimson 18-2 in the second game...
Harvard baseball had a disappointing non-conference and the team’s struggles continued yesterday in the Ivy League opener. Against Princeton (10-11, 2-2 Ivy), the Crimson (1-16, 0-2) dropped two contests and extended its losing streak to 11 games. “Today was really disappointing,” captain Matt Vance said. “We struggled for most of the day and we never really got anything done that we wanted to.”The story of the doubleheader was an inability to bring runners home in big situations. Harvard dropped...
...Though devotees crave great driving, everyone knows there's more to F1 than that. In fact, motor racing leaves many sports lovers cold because all they see is the cars, not a genuine human-to-human contest. Tiger Woods and Roger Federer wield state-of-the-art equipment that may be subtly different from what their opponents use, but it's not better (nor particularly high-priced). In F1, however, some cars are indisputably better than others. Recently, those superior cars have belonged to Ferrari and McLaren, and no matter how good a driver you may have been...
...Clintons, quitting isn't an option. "My family is not big on quitting," Bill Clinton said in West Virginia on March 26. When Clinton closes her eyes, she sees John McCain triumphing in November against Obama in a contest she believes she would win. Like all competitive candidates, Clinton is certain she would be a better leader than her rivals, and she feels an obligation to her supporters to fight on. "The people who are supporting me sure don't want to see it over," she told TIME while campaigning in Pennsylvania on March 25. "They tell...
...Dice-K's presence in Game 3). Ratings for NPB games in the evening are generally higher than MLB games in the a.m. One of the few exceptions was the first time Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners and Matsuzaka squared off in an MLB game last April, a contest telecast from 8:30 a.m. in the morning and which drew a rating of 13.3% of the TV audience...