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Just five months into his job as president of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), Etienne de Villiers faced a hostile crowd of doubles pros at the Masters Cup in Shanghai to explain to them why he would have to curtail their sport to save it. The players had already filed suit against the ATP, and there was De Villiers last November, back swinging just four months after cancer surgery, telling them he was going to go ahead with a shortened, no-ad scoring system; a super tie-break instead of a third set; and a rule that doubles players...
...Villiers is the referee, trying to strengthen tennis while balancing the needs of tournament directors and players. To complicate matters, national or local tennis federations govern the Grand Slams--the Australian, French and U.S. Opens and Wimbledon, the sport's biggest events--and the International Tennis Federation oversees Davis Cup matches between countries. The result is a scheduling nightmare in which even the smallest changes become political...
...year, this nameless senior (who didn’t give his name for fear of embarrassment) and his friends decided to go water down the College’s namesake. “We got to the statue and it was drenched. It was disgusting. There was a solo cup upside down on top of his head,” the senior says. As he was unzipping, a cop spotted him and started yelling at him. The senior was forced to dismount John Harvard, as well as remove the offending solo cup from the statue’s esteemed head...
...It’s the wind,” insisted a graduate of Yale’s class of 2002 as he watched his orange ping-pong ball fall short of its target: a half-filled plastic cup, its side adorned with a logo and the words ‘Harpoon Brewery.’ “I’ve been to a few regattas before,” he related, undeterred, as he prepared for another shot. “But I don’t know if I’d call myself...
...17th annual Mayor’s Cup took place yesterday at Franklin Park in Boston, and the Harvard men’s and women’s cross country teams competed in the 8000 meter race and the 5000 meter race, respectively. This weeks result with only part of the team competing came on the heels of an impressive performance a week ago. A week ago in the Pre-Nationals open race in Terre Haute, Ind., the Crimson men took home the victory, while the women took sixth in their side of the draw. The meet was presented...