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...That’s how Joe Walsh described how his Harvard team felt before its Ivy Championship Series date with Princeton last spring. After surviving the brutal gauntlet of the Rolfe Division—last-place Yale finished with an 11-9 mark, or the same record as the Gehrig Division-winning Tigers—the Crimson exhaled when it saw black and orange in the visitors’ dugout. “Maybe we needed to be on edge like we were every weekend,” Walsh said, “knowing that if you drop...
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...Lions are looking to stay out of the Gehrig gutter this season after their 6-14 Ivy record left them tied for last place with Cornell last year. In 2006, Columbia’s lineup sported a paltry .340 OBP and scored only 211 runs while the pitching staff had a combined 6.94 ERA and allowed opposing batters...
That kind of double death can also result from an act of God. Disease, for example, can not just end your life; if it is exotic and dramatic enough, it can steal your identity as well. Without being consulted, you become an eponym. At least baseball great Lou Gehrig had the time and talent to be remembered for things other than what was generally known as ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). Ryan White, a teenager when he died in the early years of the AIDS epidemic, did not. He was hastily conscripted as poster boy for the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS...
...Crimson to win the league title and an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament in its Jan. 29 college preview issue. The magazine selected Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale to follow Harvard in the Red Rolfe Division, while ranking Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, and Penn in order in the Lou Gehrig Division. The Crimson compiled the league’s top record (14-6) last season—a year in which it was also a preseason favorite—but fell to Princeton in the league’s best-of-three series that determined which squad received the NCAA berth...