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...World Boxing Organization's heavyweight champion, Klitschko took the title two years ago by dominating American Chris Byrd in a 12-round bout. He will defend it for the fourth time this Saturday in Las Vegas, against another American, Jameel McCline. Klitschko, who will reportedly earn more than $1 million for the fight, is the overwhelming favorite. Fight connoisseurs are calling him the boxing world's next superstar. Despite his size - he's 2 m and weighs 114 kg - the long-limbed Klitschko is surprisingly light on his feet, but packs a wicked punch. His chief competition for ring mastery...
...haphazardly quotes a few indiscrete, heated remarks from athletes to present an absurd, monolithic picture of the athlete at Harvard (Op-Ed, Oct. 30). Smith’s own remarks about athletes are far more contemptuous than any remarks he quoted. When men’s heavyweight crew captain Michael J. Skey ’03 observed that athletes won’t stop training for seven weeks to join a cello group, he was neither saying that music is inferior to athletics nor that athletes are uninterested in other activities. Skey’s comment meant only that...
...writer is a member of the men’s heavyweight varsity crew team...
Chiefly, protests over the new rule demonstrate that some athletes are not interested in getting involved in extracurricular activities beyond the confines of their sports. Harvard heavyweight crew captain Michael J. Skey ’03 sarcastically remarked to The Crimson that athletes are “not going to stop training because a bunch of presidents got together and thought it would be a good idea for them to join the cello group for seven weeks.” Skey expresses a contemptuous view of broad involvement in Harvard activities. Athletics, unlike many other extracurricular pursuits, breeds a subculture...
...another unrelated incident Sunday, a lightweight eight-person shell from George Washington University collided with a Brown University heavyweight women’s eight boat during warm-ups prior to racing in the regatta...