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...women competed without their best athletes, as none of the team captains hit the course. Senior Chas Gillespie, junior Dan Chenowith and juniors Jamie Olson and Claire Richardson all sat out on Saturday, but the women’s squad proved undaunted, as Harvard dominated the field. Freshman Sammy Silva won the women’s 6k race in 22:35.43, giving her an 18-second margin of victory in her first race for the Crimson. “I think she did really well,” sophomore Jeanne Mack said. “In her first collegiate race...
After starting the season 3-0 for the first time since 2005, the Harvard field hockey team was unable to carry its momentum into the first half of its Ivy League opener against Yale on Saturday. The Bulldogs (3-2, 1-0 Ivy) used their speed and drive to mark up a 4-0 halftime lead and managed to withstand a strong Crimson (3-1, 0-1) comeback to secure the 4-3 victory...
...thing is, when you look around the new Cowboys Stadium, with its multitude of private clubs and bars and what you might call its presiding deity (a massive, 600-ton JumboTron hovering 90 ft. above the field), you can't help suspecting that a good part of his vision is to make the stadium experience even more like the home experience - centered on television, food and drink - but bigger. Much, much bigger. So at 3 million sq. ft., the Cowboys' new home in Arlington, Texas, is three times the size of Texas Stadium, where they used to play...
...mammoth, four-sided, Cleopatra's barge of video screens stretching 160 ft. in length. For many fans, especially the ones in the nosebleed seats, what they see on that screen will be their experience of the game. By comparison, the actual teams will be little dots scrambling on a field far below - except in the rare cases when the two worlds collide. In a much discussed incident during a preseason game at the stadium in August, A.J. Trapasso of the Tennessee Titans managed to bonk the JumboTron with a punt, which set off a fuss about whether it would have...
...playoff game, and they finished last season with a lackluster 9-7 record. Yet in one respect they still rule - Forbes magazine estimates they're the most valuable franchise in sports, worth $1.6 billion, given the willingness of Cowboys fans to pay up no matter what happens on the field...