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...perhaps the most rational strategy in all of sports, yet every March, and throughout the college basketball - and NBA - season, elite coaches fail to make a move that any barstool Bobby Knight would surely recommend (and will surely scream at the TV). With your team up three points, and just a few seconds left in the game, the opponent needs a long-distance three-point shot to tie it up. So, it would stand to reason, you should prevent the other player from taking that potentially heart-breaking heave by fouling him before he has a chance to shoot...
...BIRTH OF THE BEEF: Fifteen years after Bronx M.C.s like Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five pioneered hip-hop, New York City rapper Tim Dog's 1991 single F___ Compton took aim at the growing L.A. scene and, with it, Suge Knight's Death Row Records. Knight, for his part, focused his ire on a brash young New York producer named, back then, Puff Daddy...
...UNEASY PEACE: The tit-for-tat killings of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. seemed to exhaust the rivalry. For parole violations, Knight eventually went to jail; Death Row foundered, and West Coast rap with it. Atlanta and St. Louis, Mo., became hip-hop power centers, cooling coastal tensions...
Succumbing to the Golden Knights in the opening game of the ECAC quarterfinal conference last Friday, the Harvard men’s hockey team suffered a 3-0 loss to Clarkson at Cheel Arena in Potsdam, N.Y., paving the way for its ultimate 2-0 defeat in the series. “For the most part, we outplayed them,” senior Kevin Du said. “But they’re a very good team, and we gave them too many opportunities, and they capitalized on them.” Entering the match with intensity, the Crimson...
...contained an epic appeal. In an analogy to one of the stories the class had just read, the senior requested accommodation for one or more of the major course assignments because of how they coincided with the deadline of her thesis. The assigned story, “Yvain, the Knight of the Lion,” tells of a knight who must vanquish a giant in time to save a damsel that same day. “The knight has a time management problem,” said Samantha M. Waters ’07, another thesis writer...