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...first freshman eight event, the Crimson was in a three-way battle with Princeton and Cornell. The Tigers and Harvard pulled away from the Big Red moving into the final 500 meters of the race. Princeton pushed its bow ball out to a slight advantage with only two or three hundred meters until the finish line. The Crimson countered with a strong and precise sprint that walked it up a few seats in the final strokes to win by half a second in a time of 5:37.2 to Princeton?...
...varsity event, the Crimson eight was in a three-boat race with Yale and Princeton. The event was a repeat of the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Regatta from only two weekends ago, but this time, Harvard fell short to the Tigers...
...meter runners, junior Brian Hill and freshman Carlyle Davis, also clocked in their lifetime bests in the event...
...exciting bonus for sports aficionados, but last week things really got electric. Police used Tasers on fans twice, once to stop a field runner at a Phillies game and again to subdue a drunken fan at a golf tournament who was angry with Tiger Woods. Although the baseball event in particular may have yielded some very popular YouTube videos, the police officers involved should not have used such excessive force. In both cases, the response was far harsher than the activity warranted, and Tasers are not an appropriate way to deter fans from illegal behavior...
Running onto the field of a major sporting event is a crime, and armed fans in the vicinity of players certainly pose a safety threat. However, in both recent cases, no players were in danger. The Phillies fan did not appear to be armed and simply ran circles in the outfield. In the golf incident, the man resisting arrest was clearly intoxicated while heckling players. Police should expect drunken people to act belligerently and yell at sports games and should not respond with excessive force, even at more restrained events like golf tournaments. In both cases, the fans could have...