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...fact, people wear garments proclaiming their affiliation with one or another English Premier League team. But one jersey you're unlikely to spot? That of Manchester City. It's not because City has struggled, unsuccessfully, for three decades now to emerge from the shadow of its more moneyed crosstown rival, Manchester United. Even Birmingham's lackluster Aston Villa, after all, maintains a dogged fan base in Thailand's capital. No, the reason Manchester City is taboo in Bangkok is because its new owner is ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra...
...point. San Jose State could not keep up as the Crimson ultimately won the bout, 83-62.“Once they gained confidence and learned that there is not a need to panic, we began winning games,” Delaney-Smith said.Their confidence appeared once again against crosstown rival Boston College. At halftime, Harvard actually trailed the Eagles, 31-22, but the second period belonged entirely to the Crimson. Offensive production from all sides of the floor chipped away at the BC lead. A 7-0 run late in the half provided the women with the necessary momentum...
...After cruising past Fordham, 8-5, the team faced off against Brown in the second round. The rematch played out differently, as the Bears dashed Harvard’s championship hopes with a 9-4 victory. The men rebounded the next day to salvage a third-place finish over crosstown rival MIT. At Easterns, Ivy League foe Princeton squeaked by Harvard with a narrow 9-8 victory. In the second matchup, the Crimson succumbed again to Johns Hopkins, which walked away with a 11-7 victory in a tightly contested match. In the end, Harvard, after entering the tournament seeded...
...Tobe and freshman Kyle Richter, while BC’s goalie Cory Schneider, who has since been appointed to the 2007 U.S. Men’s National Hockey Team and had a .925 save percentage for the season, was notorious for his strength between the pipes. But when the crosstown rivals faced off in Harvard’s first nonconference game of the season, the host Crimson stepped up to the challenge, claiming its first victory of the season with a 4-0 shutout over the Eagles at the Bright Hockey Center...
...crosstown rival Boston College fought its way into its second consecutive Frozen Four, I couldn’t help but feel a twinge of sadness. What’s the end of March without a little Harvard hockey madness? And what will it take for the 2007-08 squad to make a return to the Dance...