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...victory over UConn is no longer crucial in terms of securing an NCAA first-round bye, since there are no byes now that the tournament has expanded to 64 teams. But starting this year, only the top sixteen seeds get to host first and second-round games, so regional battles such as Harvard vs. UConn still have high stakes...
...UConn game has been critical in determining the team’s fate each of the past two seasons. In 1999, Harvard’s victory over UConn—its first since 1981—propelled the Crimson to a top regional ranking and a first-round...
...Crimson take on Marist this afternoon at 1 p.m. in its first-round match...
...lies unraveled last week, after Danny had retired 18 batters in a row in a first-round World Series win, the first perfect game in a series since 1957; won the other three games he pitched; and helped the All-Stars finish third out of 16 teams. A SPORTS ILLUSTRATED reporter unearthed a copy of Danny's real birth certificate in his hometown, and by the time politicians were embracing the team at a city hall rally, everyone who wasn't on the stage was talking about the controversy. Then the New York Daily News revealed that Danny...
...whose attempts to liberalize the economy plunged the country into debt and ignited the discontent that led to the creation of the Solidarity movement; in Cieszyn, Poland. DIED. KOREY STRINGER, 27, Minnesota Vikings football player who collapsed during training; from heatstroke, in Mankato, Minnesota. The lineman was a first-round draft pick and famously generous. When he was selected for the Pro Bowl, Stringer signed over his check to buy equipment for his high-school team. DIED. BERTIE FELSTEAD, 106, last known surviving member of the World War I British battalion that left the trenches in northern France on Christmas...