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Early recruiting is spreading to other sports. According to Scout.com the number of high school juniors committing early to big-college-football schools is up 430% (61 committed in 2003, 323 this year). Men's ice hockey coaches have recruited ninth-graders, and women's volleyball coaches are scouting younger and younger girls...
...world, Canadian painter Ken Danby was more commercial than cool. But if some critics turned up their noses at his realistic images--of the Ontario landscape, of hockey icon Wayne Gretzky and other sports figures, of PM Pierre Trudeau for a 1968 Time cover--his appeal among regular folks helped cement his place in museums around the world. His most widely reproduced work, At the Crease, of a masked hockey goalie waiting for a hit, became an unofficial national symbol and won praise from Danby's hero, realist Andrew Wyeth, as "terrifying and exciting." Danby died of an apparent heart...
...muggy, 77-degree conditions, Harvard field hockey battled against Providence College in a non-conference contest under the lights at Jordan Field. The Crimson (5-3, 2-0 Ivy) fell, 3-1, to the Friars (7-3, 1-0 Big East), who claimed their third straight win in team head-to-head history. With the win, Providence also managed to snap Harvard’s four-game home winning streak. The Friars came in fighting and wasted no time scoring as freshman Julie Ruggieri knocked in a loose ball to the lower left of the net just over a minute...
...Harvard field hockey team rebounded from its Wednesday night loss with a resounding victory over Brown on Saturday afternoon at Jordan Field. The Crimson’s home win streak was kept alive as three different Harvard players scored in the first period. With a 4-1 final score, the Crimson (5-2, 2-0 Ivy League) netted the most goals the team has recorded since 2004, and the Bears (0-7, 0-2) suffered their seventh straight loss. Even though Harvard already held a 3-1 lead at halftime, it was in the second period that the squad dominated...
Under the lights at the George J. Sherman Sports Complex, the fourth-ranked University of Connecticut women’s field hockey squad stopped the Crimson dead in its tracks...