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...year.”Like its heavyweight counterpart, the varsity lightweight team will welcome the addition of a talented sophomore class—Harvard’s freshman four was the highest-placing lightweight four in its field at the IRAs. Additionally, the team will welcome back senior Moritz Hafner, who spent the last year training with the Swiss national team.“The program has a completely different feel so far this year,” lightweight captain Jeff Overington said. “We’re working a lot harder, and the team is more motivated...
...Crimson. Lightweight captain Pat Mulcahy sat seven-seat in the second varsity eight last year, while fellow senior Matthew Fasman, who is also a chair of the Crimson’s information technology board, rowed in the third varsity in 2007.Young’s fellow varsity oarsman, Moritz Hafner, is spending what would be his senior year in Switzerland training for the 2008 Olympics. “Over half the varsity team at the moment seems to be sophomores,” says junior Phillip Parham, who rowed in the bow seat of the second varsity last year...
...crop falls into three distinct categories. First, there are the prime-timers - Boston's David "Big Papi" Ortiz and Travis Hafner of the Cleveland Indians, who are both DH-ing at the peak of their careers. "Ortiz and Hafner are two of the best four hitters in baseball right now, by any standard that's valid," says Indians General Manager Mark Shapiro. It's hard to argue with him - Hafner, 29, hit .308 with 42 homers in 2006, and Ortiz, 31, not only led the American League with 54 home runs last season, but is by far the best clutch...
...going to go with a veteran guy who can handle the pressure," says Didier. "When he sits on the bench, he's not going to want to hit the bat over his head if he goes 0 for 4. Those young guys are insecure, boy." But Hafner and Ortiz have shown that certain level-headed young players can produce, allowing their teams to put more skilled defenders on the field. And baseball teams love to copycat. "This is a generation of players that have put a lot of focus on hitting," says Beane. "So, there's no question that...
...Harvard and Radcliffe rowers, however, stole that chance from the rest of the crowd. It was a day of successes, from a first in the collegiate open men’s division by senior Toby Medaris and a second place among the collegiate lightweight men going to junior Moritz Hafner to a fourth-place finish for Radcliffe heavyweight junior Laura Larsen-Strecker in the collegiate open women’s. Medaris, who was also seventh overall in the open men’s with a time of 05:59.5, said he had been expecting to do well, as training...