Word: iras
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...decision will keep the sport’s national championship under the auspices of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA), an organization founded in 1894 by Cornell, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania, and dominated by East Coast programs...
...East Coast is home to the IRA and the EARC and has long been the cradle of collegiate rowing. Harvard and Yale’s first race in 1852 marked the first ever collegiate athletic competition, and the IRA National Championship is held each year in Camden, New Jersey...
...negative energy. “I was definitely intrigued by the power of music at a young age,” he said. “For example, when listening to U2 as a kid, I noticed that some of those songs addressed apartheid in South Africa or the IRA.” Sen said the family has a long history of striving for social justice. “Kabir has inherited it,” he added. Kabir’s grandfather was a member of the Italian resistance during the Second World War and was shot by members...
...push at the midway point, as crews prepare to enter the brutal third 500 meters on a high note—and with some distance between opposing boats. Tenths of seconds change races; baseball innings, on the other hand, can last half an hour.Even though the Eastern Sprints and IRA Championships still sit a month away, each weekend plays out as a mini-championship. Harvard has just one shot at each opponent until a rematch at Lake Quinsigamond and another in Camden, N.J. It’s a veritable NCAA Tournament every weekend, culminating in a six-across frenzy that...
U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday” was on the list as well, seemingly more in the name of thoroughness than to implicate the titular day of the week, or the IRA, in the World Trade Center attacks...