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...Harvard men’s tennis team began the first day of the four-day USTA/ITA National Indoor Tournament in Chicago with a 4-0 loss to the No. 5 University of Florida—the tournament’s third seed and the same team that ousted the Crimson in the first round of the same tournament a year...
...pursue his other interests. It was always exciting and always hectic but also an arrangement that he backed into, a reaction to life's inevitable twists and turns. "When I went to vet school, it didn't quite occur to me that being a veterinarian was an indoor job." In fact, Berger assumed he'd be a zoo veterinarian, but he found that world, in his estimation, "to have the worst aspects of the military hierarchy--just too regimented for my type of life." In the late 1960s and early '70s, he managed to see a lot of exotic animals...
BOSTON—If you looked at a program for yesterday’s C.R.A.S.H.-B’s indoor rowing competition, which displays headlines such as “I Was Bigfoot’s Erg Slave” and “Puce is the Hot Winter Color,” you might have thought that the event was a joke. But while the program emphasizes the event’s fun spirit, don’t let it fool you: the competition is fierce and attracts the best rowers in the world...
...event started at Harvard’s Newell Boathouse as a way to spice up the boring winters rowers had to go through off the water. The “Charles River All Star Has-Beens” began training indoors with the invention of the Model A rowing ergometer in 1980. Their idea quickly grew event into the premier world indoor rowing championship that the C.R.A.S.H.-B’s are today. In 1997 the event found its current home at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Boston...
...track of the Reggie Lewis Center is lined with two rows of 40 ergs each. A huge screen is put up to display a virtual simulation of the race. With over 2,200 competitors, the event is almost as large as the Head of the Charles Regatta, but the indoor location allows it to be held over the course of only one day. The spectators get to see the whole race and the competitors get the rare opportunity to hear their fans cheer them on, something missing when they are in the middle of the Charles River...