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Major League Baseball executives must have been crying into their beers after the Red Sox and the Dodgers both failed to make the World Series. Instead of a marquee matchup featuring two of the most storied franchises in the game, baseball has the Tampa Bay Rays and the Philadelphia Phillies. That would be 2007's worst team in baseball vs. a franchise that recently lost its 10,000th game. The sound you hear is the country flipping the channel en masse to America's Next Top Model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

Dale registered a shutout in her first-ever Ivy League matchup against Brown last weekend—delivering a decisive 3-0 win—and has also tallied an impressive set of statistics during the course of the season. Dale has blocked 36 shots on goal, registering a whopping .947 save percentage for the year...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goalies Bring Depth, Stability to Crimson Squad | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

Last night’s matchup between Harvard and Holy Cross had all the makings of the classic trap game. The Crusaders had dropped three straight contests, while the Crimson looked for its fifth straight win after a 3-0 thumping of Brown on Saturday. Even more importantly: Saturday’s Ivy showdown with undefeated Princeton looms large on Harvard’s schedule, and the team would have found three-win Holy Cross easy to overlook...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Keeps Up Streak, Downs Crusaders, 2-1 | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

...After Mann suffered a concussion, Dale has played the last two games in full after seeing usually a half’s worth of time so far this season. Both keepers should be ready to play in Saturday’s matchup at Princeton...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Keeps Up Streak, Downs Crusaders, 2-1 | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

...added incentive given that it’s Brown, and they’re always at the top of our league,” senior co-captain Michael Fucito said.Previous to Harvard’s thrashing, the Bears had been unbeaten for over a month, dropping their last matchup in early September to Charleston. However, No. 22 Brown’s seven-game unbeaten streak was shattered this past weekend by an unlikely competitor—at least according to the polls. Harvard and offensive leader Fucito, though, have always relished the role of the underdog.“We?...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen and Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Fucito Leads the Charge for Ivy League Title | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

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