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What some of my fellow writers and I learned during our time here is that sensationalizing every sporting event that we can is a waste of time. We are Harvard. Our mascot is a color. We juice with Adderall, not anabolic steroids. We are going to have bad games and bad teams...
...that is exactly what makes sports here so special. On occasions when Harvard resembles a big-name sports school, students momentarily achieve a level of confidence, and even a level of intoxication, that we long for during all-nighters in the library...
Hopefully I haven’t spoken too much for all of our sportswriters, but I think we value the unique contribution of Harvard sports to our college lives. We all get a kick out of this place when it doesn’t look anything like this place. It’s up to the reader to see it from our angle...
When the puck dropped in the season opener for women’s hockey, Harvard had a new look up front. Gone were its top three scorers from a year ago—Sarah Vaillancourt ’08-’09, Jenny Brine ’09, and Sarah Wilson ’09. Temporarily missing was junior Liza Ryabkina, a dynamic forward who was sidelined for the season’s first month with a knee injury...
...Harvard showed all the usual hallmarks of good coaching: it killed penalties well—allowing only 14 goals in 323 penalty minutes—and wore teams down with superior speed and conditioning. That conditioning and discipline allowed the Crimson to take two easy victories from Princeton in the ECAC playoffs, despite not having beaten the Tigers during the regular season...