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...taste of what the future held for Harvard sports, FM recruited a Crimson sports writer. We did not realize that he would actually predict the future. Feb. 17: At Lavietes Pavilion, Harvard men’s basketball team takes on the University of Pennsylvania (the “George Mason of 2007”). The result: Harvard comes all the way back from 25 down to win, 75-74, on a last-second shot from Jeremy S. Lin ’10. The crowd, largest in Lavietes’s history, storms the court. March 22-25: After a disappointing...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Future of Sports, Divined by Walt | 2/7/2007 | See Source »

...Alex Meyer rounded out the top three. Wollner and Lynch notched NCAA provisional marks in the event. In addition, the duo continued their domination in the 500 yard freestyle. This time, Lynch snuck in .02 seconds ahead of Wollner for a strong top two finish. Meyer and fellow freshman Mason Brunnick finished seventh and sixth, respectively, in the event. “Our distance swimmers swam exceptionally well,” Fiske said. “Sam and Eric got first and second in the two distance events—the mile and the 500-which was really...

Author: By Julie R.S. Fogarty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dual Meet Season Closes With Split | 2/6/2007 | See Source »

While Simon was recovering from his bereavement, he met Actress Marsha Mason at an audition for The Good Doctor. The mutual attraction was immediate. He married her 2 weeks after they met, "And that was with one postponement," he adds. Simon encountered little resistance to the abrupt romance from Joan's mother Helen Bairn or daughters Ellen, then 16, and Nancy, then 10. Nancy explains: "We responded to Marsha right away. She was warm and funny, and we needed to become a family again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neil Simon: Reliving A Poignant Past | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

Simon bared his rage and guilt at Joan's death and recounted his quick marriage to Mason in Chapter Two (1977). That put him back on stride, and every stage work since?from the musical They 're Playing Our Song (1979) to the trilogy?has clicked. Meanwhile, the new marriage thrived for about eight years, then ended in divorce in 1982. Although Simon wrote five films for her to star in (notably 1977's The Goodbye Girl), part of the problem was career conflict. There were other tensions, about which they are enigmatic. "Marsha was starting to find new ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neil Simon: Reliving A Poignant Past | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

THIS REGIONAL FINAL OF THE NCAA men's basketball tournament looked like a classic mismatch. The University of Connecticut featured four future NBA first-round draft picks. And George Mason--a suburban commuter school in Fairfax, Va.--looked like nothing much until its torrid shooting and scrappy defense gave it an 86-84 overtime upset of the Huskies, sending a school from a nonmajor conference to the Final Four for the first time in 27 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Best Sports Moments | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

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