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...just as March has brought warmer weather to Cambridge, spring has undoubtedly sprung brightly for Harvard athletics. To begin with, over the weekend, senior wrestler Jesse Jantzen capped his remarkable Harvard career with a national championship in the 149-lb. weight category, just the second in Harvard history and the first since 1938. In addition, Jantzen was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler in the NCAA Tournament, finishing his amazing season with a record...
...years ago in TIME With cable news, cell phones and the Web, we take instant global communications for granted. But in 1965, the launch of Early Bird, an 85-lb. satellite, was a seminal event for the world and for TIME...
...know that he deserved that medal.”Adding to the excitement was the fact that the Jantzen-Esposito match was one of just two where the No. 1 and No. 2 seed met each other in the final round. The only other occurrence was in the 165-lb. category, where Lehigh’s Troy Letters upset the Cowboys’ Tyrone Lewis...
...though Ogunwole was not pleased with his performance, he can take solace in the fact that teammate and 2004 149-lb. national champion Jesse Jantzen was not an All-American his freshman year, either, finishing with only one more win than Ogunwole...
...heading to Iraq are getting their own body armor. The Marine Corps trains German shepherds and Belgian Malinois for guard duty and, with added schooling, to sniff out bombs and drugs. Now they will be equipped with Kevlar vests, which protect the dogs from shoulders to rump. The 7-lb. vests (cost: $1,000 each) have pouches for cooling packs--panting alone won't do the trick in an Iraqi summer--as well as loops for ropes to help the dogs climb steep terrain and a harness for parachuting into hostile territory...