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...quarter, 4:14: An absolutely critical penalty on the Crimson, as Harvard is flagged for a false start on 3rd-and-3. On 3rd-and-8, Pizzotti dumps it off to Gordon, who just gets to the marker for a first down. A huge, huge conversion for the Crimson as the clock ticks under four minutes...
...Barack Obama laid down an important marker at Invesco Field - and he may have convinced more than a few white working-class skeptics to give him a closer look when the debates roll around. He stood there not as an orator, but as a plausible chief executive. His message was as tight as a power-point presentation, but far more elegant. And tough - above all, tough: not an egghead, not Adlai Stevenson. No, tonight Barack Obama was a politician from the south side of Chicago, ready for the brawl of his life...
China's success so far in women's Olympic tennis - coming close on the heel's of Zheng's strong performance at this year's Wimbledon - is a relatively recent phenomenon. In China's more vehemently socialist days, tennis was frowned upon, viewed as a marker of capitalist excess. (Any sport in which a major tournament has English nobility sampling strawberries and cream on the sidelines hardly bespoke of communist equality.) But China has changed, and a decent backhand is now considered de rigueur among many progeny of the Chinese elite. There's also the matter of international glory: Like...
...championship run taught us, it's that every dead ball situation is a potential match winner. And having already allowed a goal on a set piece you'd think Portugal's D would rise up. Nope. In the 61st minute German captain Michael Ballack, having conveniently shoved his marker out of the way, was there to meet another free kick for a 3-1 lead. A frantic Portuguese comeback would yield a goal from Helder Postiga in the 87th minute, but the Germans held...
...Palmer Dixon varsity weight room there is a white board labeled “Softball” and on it, scribbled in brown erasable marker, is one line that says: “We’re going to the ’ship!” After playing 45 regular season games the Harvard softball team, who won the Ivy North Division, is indeed headed to the Ivy League Championship Series (ILCS...