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With that elusive first victory behind it, the Crimson can start looking to turn some close losses in its favor.The Harvard wrestling team (1-5) finished winter break at the Lonestar Duals Saturday in Arlington, Texas, besting Stanford 24-21 before dropping close matches to Cal Poly and No. 7 Minnesota, 16-19 and 20-28, respectively. Despite the narrow defeats, junior co-captain Louis Caputo felt encouraged by the Crimson’s resolve against top teams.“The [duals] went well,” he said. “It felt good to pull...
...Northern Iowa. Junior Andrew Flanagan (165), who finished fourth at Midlands last year, had been slated to compete for the first time this season after an eye injury but was pulled from the competition in a last-minute decision. The Crimson returns to dual competition next Saturday at the Lonestar Duals in Arlington, Texas, with Michigan, North Carolina and North Dakota State lined up as its scheduled opponents. —Staff writer Tony D. Qian can be reached at tonyqian@fas.harvard.edu...
LIKE REALITY TV, ROLLER DERBY mixes contrived personae with real conflict, theatrics with real spills. The women of the Austin, Texas, Lonestar Rollergirls league are equal parts athletes and punk-feminist performance artists (with drag-queeny noms de skate like Venis Envy and Miss Conduct); they wear Catholic-schoolgirl skirts and fishnets and deal out bruising blows. "You can be completely feminine and athletic, threatening and sexy," says a skater of the sport's appeal. Gorgeously shot and structured like a drama, each episode delves into the lives of skaters, some fighting off demons, others blowing off steam. As their...
Coleman and Rich first met in 1992 when Rich, then with the blandly successful Lonestar, looked into a crowd and spotted "a 6-ft. 5-in. black guy in a cowboy hat, starched Wranglers and a giant belt buckle two-stepping his ass off." The pair shared broad musical tastes, became friends and kept in touch, but Coleman rapped mostly at local bars as "a party trick" until 2001, when he quit his job and made two independent albums that left him $25,000 in debt. "DJs would say, 'This is pretty novel, really cool,'" says Coleman of his early...
...Lonestar Duals last year, O’Donnell pulled an incredible upset by defeating Iowa State’s Joe Heskett, the nation’s top-ranked wrestler in the 165-lb. class. Heskett had held the top standing for almost all of the past two years and had a perfect 16-0 record before his loss to O’Donnell in overtime...