Word: cups
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...We’ve never won the Straus Cup, so we were particularly delighted to have a winning sports team,” Quincy House Master Lee Gehrke said...
...It’s a trying time for Eliot House. The plate was donated by an Eliot alumnus, and we clearly want to keep the cup in our House as much as possible,” said Rafael T. Quintanar ’10, who was coxswain for the Eliot men’s IM crew team...
Currently, men’s IM crew teams compete for the Agassiz Cup, which the Eliot team has won for the last three years. To rectify the gender disparity in recognition, Pertile solicited the help of Stone, who led the Eliot men’s crew team as a resident of the house decades...
...Maradona, who turns 49 next week and is already a grandfather, is revered at home for leading Argentina to historic victories on the soccer field, particularly winning the 1986 World Cup. That was also the tournament in which he exacted a symbolic revenge for Argentina's defeat by Britain in the 1982 Falklands War by scoring two goals to sink England, the first illegally with a concealed fist that he wryly attributed to "the hand of God", and the second following a sublime run from the halfway line leaving the England defense for dead...
...Before the Games and the World Cup were awarded, Rio officials played down the security angle, and they were delighted at the willingness of the IOC and FIFA to turn a blind eye to the problem. Now, though, they are the ones who are left to deal with the problem. Last weekend was a reminder that, tough as it may be to meet the tight schedule for building the stadiums and the public-transportation infrastructure that is required to host these events, that may turn out to be the easy part...