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...though this may be - that a football match or a motor race can provide a moment of liberation from all that. So when sportsmen or women cheat - scandals have sullied the image of baseball, cricket, cycling, rugby and soccer in recent times - the disservice to fans, and the damage done to sports, is far deeper. Cheating doesn't just hurt sports but betrays our sense of what's right, what's fairly attainable. It punches us straight in our optimism. (See the Top 10 Sporting Cheats...
...game.That was all Randolph needed. On the first play of the drive, Randolph launched a pretty, arching pass to Gerald Mistretta down the left sideline. Mistretta hauled in the catch and sauntered into the endzone to give the Crusaders a commanding 27-13 advantage.But Harvard and Winters were not done yet. On the ensuing drive, the Crimson worked quickly and effectively, mixing the run and pass well to move up to the Crusaders’ 46. From nearly the same spot where Randolph had just seemingly crushed Harvard’s aspirations for victory, Winters reached back to God knows...
...field goal and instead opted to give Gordon the ball in a fourth-and-three situation.“I didn’t feel great about where we were for a field goal,” Murphy said. “We wanted to try to get something done there. We needed seven points to win the game.”Gordon pushed forward, hitting a wall of linemen. As he struggled to make a hole in the fray, Crusader Marcus Rodriguez tackled the Crimson’s starting tailback to the ground, ending the drive.Harvard...
...Department of Education. Some schools reportedly "game the system"—downplaying their crime rate for fear of bad reputation, while other schools remain "steadfastly honest." Congress is soon expected to make the Clery Act's guidelines more stringent. Let's all hope that once that's done, Harvard may strip itself the honor of being on this list. If not, the only solution that remain may be just to relocate. New Hampshire anyone...
...These cases piled up, and there got to be a consensus that something should be done," Marsh says. The conservative-dominated appeals court, the Republican-led legislature and Republican Governor Rick Perry were not opposed to reform. "The courts, officials were tired of being embarrassed all the time," Marsh says. The new Office of Capital Writs, scheduled to be in place by 2010, will deal with new cases, not those already in the pipeline...