Word: cupfuls
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...ranked Yale, 5-4, on the Bulldogs’ home courts on Feb. 22, the Crimson earned both a joyous ride home and its first Ivy League championship since 2003. Harvard finished with a perfect 6-0 league record. The Crimson went on to take third at the Howe Cup national tournament, as the Bulldogs exacted revenge with a 6-3 win in the semifinals. Still, the team was able to reclaim the Ivy crown, its 15th overall. “Hey, we won the Ivy title,” said captain Allison Fast after the Howe Cup...
...France has lots of young people with great ideas. Why aren't they getting through?" Still, in at least one area, Koné is a true French traditionalist: he believes that France should support its own. Many multimillion-dollar equipment contracts expire at the end of World Cup play in July. Koné reasons that with Germany's Adidas equipping the Nationalmannschaften, the U.S.'s Nike supplying Team U.S.A. and Britain's Umbro sponsoring England, "I can only hope France will now chose a French company like Airness to supply its uniforms." The French national team playing in a brand...
...team to beat all season long and finished ahead of the Radcliffe and Georgetown crews when it counted. “They usually gain a lot of speed throughout the season—I wasn’t surprised that they got a lot faster between the Knecht Cup and Sprints,” Bates said. “We’ve seen them do that in past years as well.” Earlier on in the competition, the Black and White had outraced the Hoyas in their first heat, but a strong final race from Georgetown gave...
...insisted on reading everything in the newspaper every day.”Bingham hired the first full-time ombudsman in 1969, then instituted the first extensive conflict of interest policy in the country in 1972. “We were told never to accept anything free, even a cup of coffee,” says Stanley K. Macdonald, former projects editor at The Courier-Journal.“It became a kind of basis for the industry,” says Keith L. Runyon, editor of The Forum at The Courier-Journal. Later, The Courier-Journal housed the first full...
Sean Wilsey is the author of "Oh the Glory of It All," a memoir that has just been published in paperback. He is also the coeditor, with Matt Weiland, of a new book about soccer, "The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup...