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...With the departure of his longtime training partner Clay Johnson ’07, a four-time winner of the NEISA singlehanded event, Kovacs stepped up admirably and kept the title in Cambridge for the ninth straight year. “It was pretty exciting to win the New England Singlehanded Championship. Harvard has a tradition of winning the regatta,” Kovacs said. “It was nice to continue the tradition.” He went on to take fourth place at the national singlehanded regatta in November. But Kovacs’ individual honors...
...sophomore Claire Sheldon were named to the All-Ivy team. “Harvard has a lot of history, and to do something for the first time and achieve something like this is really special,” said head coach Kevin Rhoads, who was named the 2008 New England PGA Teacher of the Year. The Crimson came into the season with high expectations after a successful 2006-07 campaign. The players were also looking to atone for the disappointing fourth-place finish at the 2007 league championships, where they finished behind Princeton, Columbia, and Yale—the league?...
...Whether or not FIFA can win the E.U. around - and it's unlikely it will - one thing is clear: international football's governing bodies are perturbed by the commercial might amassed by England's Premier League. As by far the world's richest soccer league - club revenue grew 11% in the 2006/7 season to $3.6 billion, according to figures published Thursday by consultants Deloitte - the contribution from foreign players, coaches and investors has grown rapidly in recent years. With legions of foreign stars lured by the piles of cash accumulated from the lucrative sale of TV rights, only a third...
...Responding to the vote in Sydney, meanwhile, the Premier League is unmoved. "We want to see the greatest possible number of England-qualified players coming through in the Premier League, but this has to be based on merit and quality," it said in a statement Friday. "And there is no doubting that foreign talent has aided the technical development of the English game." As for Chelsea, its amassing of foreign stars didn't help this month in the Champions League final. It was beaten by Manchester United. The number of foreigners in Manchester's starting lineup? Just five...
Rescorla learned many of the tricks of survival in the military. He was one of those thick-necked soldier types who spend the second halves of their lives patrolling the perimeters of marble lobbies the way they once patrolled a battlefield. Born in England, he joined the U.S. military because he wanted to fight the communists in Vietnam. When he got there, he earned a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart in battles memorialized in the 1992 book by Lieut. General Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway, We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young...