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...other event, the NCAA Tournament is sport for sport’s sake – a lucrative event, certainly, but also one that showcases the talents of those incapable of ditching school for 10-hour training days at age 15.With the exception of the 18-going-on-80 Greg Oden, there are few—if any—Zinedine Zidanes in the NCAA Tournament. How many 19-year-old kids could walk by the NCAA Tournament Trophy, seconds after committing an ignominious act condemning his team to a certain loss, with the expression of a person...
...said. “I think our offense played with a lot of poise and possessed the ball well, which was something we asked them to do to allow the defense to play fresh.”With the Crimson clinging to a 5-4 lead after senior attackman Greg Cohen stole an errant pass out of the air in the Denver zone and scored with 11:33 to play in the third quarter, senior attackman Evan Calvert had a number of chances to increase the lead. Denver had its chances, too, but sophomore goalie Joe Pike and the defense...
...adjustment the Quakers had to make after the opening minutes. Harvard jumped out to a 3-0 advantage less than four minutes into the action, as senior attackmen Evan Calvert and Greg Cohen teamed up to give the Crimson its biggest lead all season. Calvert scored twice in the span of five seconds and assisted on Cohen’s goal en route to a 3-1 lead after a quarter. Penn stormed back to tie the score at 3 apiece, before Calvert fed Cohen again to retake the lead. A Quaker goal 37 seconds before halftime tied the score...
...local level, Mayor Greg Nickels of Seattle, who was incensed after the Senate walked away from the international Kyoto global-warming accords, began what has become a nationwide movement to bring U.S. cities into compliance. As of last month, 431 mayors representing more than 61 million Americans had signed on, imposing higher parking taxes, buying hybrid vehicles for the municipal fleet, helping local businesses audit their energy use and even converting traffic lights from incandescents to LEDs, which are 90% more efficient. Says Nickels: "I think this sends a message that there is intelligent life in America...
...anticipating this event since, well, since the last one ended four years ago, the poor performance has been cause for despair even - or perhaps especially - amongst those for whom despair has become a way of life. So far, save a few demonstrators holding up signs calling on the coach Greg Chappell or the captain Rahul Dravid to resign, and a few cases where pictures of players were set alight for the cameras, that despair has not turned into violence. Most people seem depressed more than angry...