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Harvard begins the season attempting to recover from the loss of four-time singlehanded champion Clay Johnson ’07 to graduation. The A-division team of captain skipper Kyle Kovacs and senior crew Elyse Dolbec becomes the Crimson’s new top tandem, in what Dolbec described as “a bit of a rebuilding year...
...whose ruthless preparations for this Cup signal their determination to lift it. On home soil, the always-stylish French are another possibility. Asia's sole representative, Japan, under former All Black John Kirwan, will try to turn around their lamentable World Cup record (which includes a staggering 145-17 loss to the Blacks in 1995), but victory is impossible...
...sixth Sept. 11 since 2001--once again approaches. A sixth anniversary is an awkward thing, without the raw feeling of a first or the numerical tidiness of a fifth or 10th. The families of the 2,973 people murdered that day need no calendrical gimmick to feel their loss, but a nation of 300 million--rightly or wrongly--is another matter...
...field, to borrow a phrase from sports-injury researchers, is an impact-rich environment. Players frequently knock heads, but it's hard to predict which of the many hits will result in brain-rattling concussions, which are relatively few in number and--contrary to popular belief--often occur without loss of consciousness. Eight colleges, including three Big Ten schools, are using the team version of Riddell's high-tech helmets, which wirelessly relay real-time data--gleaned from the same sensors found in car air bags--to a sideline computer that can send a pager alert if a player receives...
...lacrosse team, Director of Athletics Bob Scalise announced Wednesday. Tillman, who had served as a Midshipmen assistant since 1995, had been the head assistant coach since 2002. His best season with Navy came in 2004, when helped lead the Midshipmen to the NCAA championship game, an eventual 14-13 loss to Syracuse. Navy made the NCAA Tournament five times while Tillman was on the staff. “I am thrilled to undertake this new challenge at an institution the caliber of Harvard University,” Tillman said in a statement. “My educational and athletic backgrounds...