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...spend a lot of energy just trying to get back in it, and any time they can raise up and get a three, or get an easy bucket, it just takes the wind out of you,” Amaker said.After a soaring Kenyi layup cut the deficit to 12 halfway through the period, Wittman responded with a jumper and a transition three pointer, igniting a 16-6 run over a span of about four minutes. “It’s just demoralizing when they hit those threes, especially when the crowd gets into...
ITHACA, N.Y.—Four minutes into the second half of Friday’s game against Cornell, one word must have occupied each member of Harvard’s men’s basketball team: repeat.A sluggish first half left the Crimson with a 51-35 deficit heading into the locker room in Newman Arena. But the men’s squad emerged reinvigorated and kicked off the second period with a 10-0 run that brought them to within six of the defending Ivy League champ. Cornell looked uncoordinated, frustrated, and nothing like the team that went...
...loss against Yale, the Crimson headed into halftime trailing 45-40. The next day, although Harvard beat Brown in dramatic fashion, it was losing 32-20 at the break. Friday, en route to a 96-75 loss to Cornell, the Crimson never recovered from a 51-35 halftime deficit...
Ever since gold miners first scraped their fortunes out of the hills of Northern California, America's most populous state has been a land of titanic dreams. These days, though, it's a place with big problems. Its $42-billion budget deficit would make an out-of-control Hollywood director blush - and bankrupt a small nation. Its schools are failing, air quality is worsening, and unemployment neared 10% as of December. The only thing larger than its litany of woes is the roster of political celebrities who are testing the waters for a run for governor in 2010, when term...
...team looked anything but exploratory. Whitman, 52, was a national co-chair and money magnet for the McCain/Palin ticket in 2008. In a statement, she said, "California faces challenges unlike any other time in its history - a weak and faltering economy, massive job losses and an exploding state budget deficit. California is better than this, and I refuse to stand by and watch it fail. Now is the time for people across the state to join a cause for change, excellence and a new California." (See the 25 most influential global executives...