Word: lightweight
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...might just miss it. The blur of crisscrossing hands and zigzagging neon cups is probably the weirdest organized sport you've never heard of. Dubbed sport stacking, this rapid-fire competition could at first glance be mistaken for some peculiar carnival game. Players are tasked with arranging 12 lightweight plastic cups into various formations; a stacking kit comes with a touch-pad timer and cups that have a trio of holes in the bottom to reduce air resistance. At slower speeds, it seems easy enough: build up pyramids and break them down in a predetermined sequence. But as the game...
Although you can’t always win them all, there’s nothing sweeter than a sweep. While the Harvard men’s lightweight crew dropped its first race of the season Saturday in a matchup of the top three crews in the country, the Harvard heavyweights took on Navy and Penn and won all five races of the regatta—the first time it has done so all season...
...Coming off its own victory over Navy last week, Harvard’s lightweight crew traveled to New Haven, Conn. this weekend in a much-anticipated showdown with Princeton and Yale on the Housatonic River amidst excellent conditions...
...lightweight varsity eight was able to take down the third-ranked Bulldogs but fell to the undefeated No. 1 Tigers. It was the Crimson’s first loss of the season in nine races. Harvard finished in 5:52.7, 4.5 seconds ahead of host Yale but 5.2 ticks behind the victorious Princeton, which took the Goldthwait Cup for the second year running...
This weekend marked more races against the best crews in the nation, but only the lightweight women’s crew team proved up to the task. While No. 2 Yale got the better of the Black and White heavyweight women’s crew team on Saturday morning in the Charles River Challenge, the lightweights knocked off No. 2 Princeton to win the Class of 2009 Cup.The No. 4 Black and White have done what only one other crew in the country has managed to do—beat Princeton in dual competition. With all the hard work...