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...about $8.4 million. It's as if the well-liked Borat, the character from Sacha Baron Cohen's previous hit, had come to a party with a new guest - "Say hello to my little friend Brüno" - and seen him greeted with a hail of bullets. The Friday-Saturday data show that Brüno was not even the top live-action comedy about a non-American who has sex with a man: it finished behind The Proposal, which has been in theaters three weeks longer. (The Sandra Bullock movie was buoyed Friday by screenings in auditoriums also showing...
...last weekend’s games showed anything, it was how tough the Ivy League’s unique Friday-Saturday schedule can be to road teams on the second night. Of the four games played last Saturday, three of the road teams suffered somewhat surprising losses, while the fourth had to grind out a tough win. First, title favorite Penn suffered its first loss of the conference campaign at Yale, 77-68. Then streaking Cornell had its four-game winning streak snapped at Lavietes Pavillion to a Harvard team that had been blown off its home court by Columbia...
...keep in mind that selecting from a hat would arguably produce better results than using rational analysis to try to crack the Ivies’ unique Friday-Saturday code. We’ll be testing that hypothesis as the month unfolds...
...simple reason for this is that they have had the best programs, and the best athletes, and over the course of the grueling 14 game league schedule of back-to-back Friday-Saturday games, that quality wins out. A conference tournament would allow an upstart team, or one playing particularly well at season’s end, to score an upset that would allow them to reach the promised land, the NCAA tournament, where Harvard has not been since 1946. The Crimson, incidentally, has never won an Ivy League title...
...reverse a long running trend that has seen Harvard drop its last nine contests to Penn and thirteen of its last fourteen games to the Tigers.“The mental toughness aspect is very huge, especially in the Ivy League, where it’s short bursts of Friday-Saturday [games] and then five days off,” senior center Brian Cusworth says. “It’s really easy for any sort of negative atmosphere to snowball. We got into a funk and we were a much better team than we represented last year...