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...Harvard’s most recent contest, a convincing 38-23 road win over Lafayette, Tracy was the linchpin for a defensive unit that forced three turnovers and stymied the Leopards when it mattered most...
Olympic competition is the ultimate competition for an athlete. The games are the oldest international athletic festival and still embody the purest spirit of competition. Each athlete competes wearing the colors of his or her country and therefore transcends the more mundane sports contest of man on man or team against team. Because those wearing the U.S. uniform represent not only themselves but the public as well, there is an expectation not present in professional sports that the athletes comply absolutely with the rules of fair and honest competition...
Colgate fans get the message. The No. 11 Raiders took a 28-14 lead over Yale with just over nine minutes remaining in the contest, as defending Payton Award winner Jamaal Branch notched his second touchdown of the game...
...however, three Ivy running backs—Dawson, Brown’s Nick Hartigan and Yale’s Robert Carr—rank among the top seven in the nation in terms of rushing yards per game and Dawson leads the country in scoring with 18 points per contest...
...days after a seven-hour firefight had served as a reminder that Ramadi, the capital of al-Anbar province, remains a key battleground in the war to shape Iraq's future. Not quite a no-go zone like insurgent-controlled Fallujah, Ramadi instead is the scene of an ongoing contest for control - The Marines on one side, various insurgent groups on the other, the people of Ramadi in the middle. "There is fighting near houses in the neighborhoods, says one of them, Waleed al-Haeti, 31. "You can lose your life just going to the market...