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...February, several teams have already found themselves eliminated from the two-month playoff that is the 14 Game Tournament. Dartmouth and Columbia, which have combined for a 1-7 start, are out of the race, while Brown and Cornell—each 2-2—have no margin for error.The three one-loss teams—Harvard, Yale, and Princeton—are all very much alive, though a loss this weekend would put them on the endangered species list. Those seven aforementioned squads are all trailing 2-0 Penn, which has been labeled the prohibitive favorite from...
...perfect reflection of the GOP's current quandary-the party recognizes the need for real reform ahead of midterm elections next fall, but also fears too much of it. After all, for Capitol Hill, where incumbency usually rules the day, Boehner's second-round win by a margin of 122-109 against front-runner and current Majority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri for the party's number two spot amounted to storming the Bastille. "Boehner looked as shocked as all of us," said Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona after the vote. But at the same time, the Ohioan...
...from the line to ice the game. The strong performance down the stretch masked what had been an abysmal showing from the stripe for Yale. The Bulldogs started the game just 11-of-21 from the free-throw line. Yale led 33-30 at the intermission and pushed that margin to 11 with a 13-5 run out of the break. A trifecta by Harvard guard Jim Goffredo capped a 7-0 Crimson run and closed the gap to four, 46-42, but that would be as close as Harvard would come the rest...
...University of South Florida. Against the Wildcats, the Crimson managed to win four out of eleven matches on Saturday at the USF Spring Invitational. Senior Brandon Chiu pulled out the best win for Harvard on the day, beating No. 84 Nate Emge by an easy 6-0, 6-1 margin. The Crimson also had victories in the singles portion of competition against Kentucky from junior Gideon Valkin and freshman Nick Savage—who won 6-1.6-4 and 4-6, 6-4, 6-1, respectively. The Wildcats won the top three singles matches as well as the first...
...from the line to ice the game. The strong performance down the stretch masked what had been an abysmal showing from the stripe for Yale. The Bulldogs started the game just 11-of-21 from the free-throw line. Yale led 33-30 at the intermission and pushed that margin to 11 with a 13-5 run out of the break. A trifecta by Harvard guard Jim Goffredo capped a 7-0 Crimson run and closed the gap to four, 46-42, but that would be as close as Harvard would come the rest...