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...Crimson’s momentum didn’t last, as it suffered a 10-4 loss to Wisconsin-Madison, followed by a tough 8-6 defeat by Winona State...
Such leadership will be instrumental if the Crimson is to defeat Maine this Saturday in the first round of the NCAA championship...
...sport in which the nation’s perennial top ten teams are from California, UMass had been one of the few eastern teams to leave a lasting impression. In 1993, the men’s team became the first eastern team to defeat a West Coast team at the NCAA Championships, finishing in sixth place overall. The tournament field has since been reduced to four teams with one East Coast representative, and UMass has filled that Final Four slot three of the past four years...
...Palestinian uprising got some bad news recently from Martin van Creveld, a world-renowned military historian from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem whose work is routinely studied in U.S. military academies. Writing in Britain's Telegraph, Van Creveld warns that the lessons of comparable situations show that Israel cannot defeat the Palestinians. Israel may have one of the world's strongest conventional fighting forces ranged against an enemy armed only with assault rifles, homemade bombs, mortars and rockets, but that asymmetry is reversed when it comes to political will, he writes. The readiness of Palestinian militants to die in order...
Guarding the three had not been Harvard’s strong point this season, and it was a major factor in its previous worst loss of the season—a 93-77 defeat to Boston University. Last night evoked shades of that defeat, as the Crimson surrendered five first-half threes to Brown...