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...York City office. After years of lethargic finals match-ups (Spurs-Nets! Spurs-Pistons! Anything with the Spurs!), Stern, and basketball fans, get a gift starting Thursday night: the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics, a rekindling of the sport's most thrilling rivalry. The much anticipated matchup has already been touted with endless clips of Bill Russell, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor and, of course, Bird vs. Magic. This year the battle of the NBA's two most storied franchises feature the sport's most breathtaking player, Kobe Bryant, against Boston's vaunted Big Three, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce...
...Harvard-Yale?”League wins over Cornell, Princeton, and Dartmouth—the Crimson’s first in eight years over the Big Green—highlighted the turnaround season and displayed the young talent that carries Harvard into its 2008 campaign. In its Oct. 20 matchup against the Tigers and eventual Ivy Player of the Year Diana Matheson, the Crimson used a free-kick goal from Nichols just one minute into the match and two tallies from Sheeleigh to power a 4-2 victory at Ohiri Field. This offseason, Harvard enjoys an advantage it hasn?...
...Rookie nerves weren’t a problem for Sheeleigh, who felt confident shooting at will—her 80 shots were tops in the Ivies. With eight goals for 16 points, the freshman led the team in scoring. The Crimson’s Sept. 21 matchup with nonconference foe Central Connecticut State served as Sheeleigh’s coming-out party, as the freshman recorded a hat trick that included the game-winning goal. She also tallied game-winners against Northeastern and New Hampshire. Sheeleigh proved her mettle in key Ivy games as well. She outshined eventual league Player...
...Make Inroads Among Traditional Democratic Voters These days Republicans love to talk about the larger crossover vote that McCain wins in the early and unreliable general matchup polls. In one Pew poll from late February, as many as 14 percent of Democrats say they will vote for McCain, compared to eight percent of Republicans who say they will vote for Obama. With so many months before the election, these numbers are not very meaningful. But they point to a key goal of the McCain campaign: upset the traditional partisan divide with a new generation of McCain-o-Crats. This...
...second clash in the space of a week between Ivy League North champion Crimson (24-20, 14-6 Ivy) and America-East leader Boston University (29-17), the margin of victory was once again just one run. Unlike their 1-0 last week, yesterday’s matchup featured more offense as the teams played out a 5-4 game in favor of the home side...