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Freshman Mark Pollak lit up the leaderboard as the Harvard men’s golf team took third place at the Kelly Gutshall Invitational at Lehigh University. In the final tournament of the fall season, the Crimson, the only Ivy League school at the eight-team tournament, saw strong performances from young players despite miserable conditions on day one. Play was suspended on day one after thunderstorms rolled in over the par-72 Bethlehem course and continued into the night. “The course was an absolutely phenomenal course and well maintained,” Pollak said...
...fastest-growing areas in the state, home to a Latino population that has swelled from about 5% of the population in 1990 to approximately 20% in 2007. Along the Occoquan and Potomac rivers, the state's northern and eastern borders, historic black neighborhoods argue for space with new developments: golf courses, strip malls, gated communities, retirement villages - many that stand half finished, caught off guard by the subprime crisis. Such bedroom communities have been the worst hit in the state by the economic downturn; before the market plunge, high gas prices and highway congestion topped the list of concerns...
After dominating throughout the fall season, it was more of the same from the Harvard women’s golf team this weekend. At the Lehigh Invitational, the Crimson paced through the field with rounds of 315 and 321 to notch its fourth victory in four tournaments this year. Now Harvard is confident it can carry this success through the offseason and into the spring, when the team will be favored to pick up a second consecutive Ivy championship. “It’s definitely great to get these results, but this is by no means...
...Talladega Superspeedway drew 50,000 fewer fans than the same event a year ago. The NCAA is cutting travel costs to combat the economic downturn. The organization will reimburse schools for only two bags of luggage per traveler, which will produce an expected savings of $1.5 million per year. Golf agents have reported a rough endorsement market for players, as the financial-services companies that have supported the sport got hit hardest by this current collapse. In hockey, Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs has forecasted a slowdown in NHL corporate sponsorship...
...mortgage-backed securities that led the way into this crisis. On Main Street, it meant borrowing to buy a house or a condo - maybe two - then perhaps borrowing again off the increasing value of that property to pay for something else: a flat-screen TV, a new set of golf clubs, your daughter's braces...