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...junior high school class to perform a peculiar test given by an official from the Qingdao City Sports School. He was asked to spread his palm and stack as many .22-cal. bullets on top of one another as he could. Ding managed a tower of eight--a feat of nervelessness, a quality essential in a competitive archer. "We're only interested in children who can pile up more than six bullets," says Qingdao archery coach Qu Yuefeng, who ticks off other attributes she requires in potential students: wide shoulders, a calm demeanor and good vision. Ding fulfilled every requirement...
...Harvard history.The Class of 2008’s introduction to Harvard-Yale could not have been more perfect. The Crimson, which took the field with a 9-0 record, had clinched the league title. The team was looking to win 10 games and to finish the season undefeated, a feat that Harvard football had not achieved for a century. With a soon-to-be NFL draftee, quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05, at the helm, and a young but dazzling Clifton Dawson ’07 in the backfield, the Bulldogs hardly stood a chance. By the time most...
...season—he received the Harold Ulen Award for an athlete at a career high-point and Philip Moriarty Award for most outstanding athlete at the EISL Championships, and was recently selected to the Academic All-American First Team.“That’s a remarkable feat to be able to do what he’s done academically and athletically,” head coach Tim Murphy said. “He put as much into the team as he did into his own goals and aspirations, which speaks very highly of him, and I think...
...cool demeanor. But she is an awesome competitor.” With her wins at both indoor and outdoor Heps, the Texas native moved into impressive company. Dora Gyorffy ’01 and Kart Siilats ’02 were the last Crimson high jumpers to accomplish the feat and the former went on to be an Olympian. Christensen hopes to join Gyorrfy in representing her country on the global stage, traveling to Eugene, Ore. for the USATF qualifying trials at the end of June. At the indoor NCAA Championships earlier this year, Christensen matched her personal-best...
...While the move is a risk for CBS, it's major milestone for MMA, whose growth has been one of the decade's most stunning sports business success stories. For the first time a live MMA fight will be broadcast on one of the big four networks, an extraordinary feat for a sport that, just 10 or so years ago, was roundly derided as "human cockfighting." At first, the caged bouts were fought in the shadows, since the sport was banned in almost every state (it is now sanctioned in 33). But MMA now draws strong ratings on the cable...