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...hockey that Cornell likes to play, the Crimson players prefer to focus on maintaining discipline and executing their own strategy.“We have to focus on playing our game. I don’t worry about what the previous record is,” co-captain Mike Taylor said. “We play our best when we focus on what we have to do and play our game, and we can’t worry about what the other team is going to bring.”For a team capable of scoring 11 goals only...
...makes us a little bit hungrier out there in the singles. [The coaches] always give us the same message, that it’s a wake-up call.” Although senior Ermakov and senior Ashwin Kumar took first doubles 8-2, senior Dan Nguyen and sophomore Mike Hayes dropped their match 8-6, as did the all-freshman team of Aba Omodele Lucien and Alexei Chijoff-Evans. Despite this disappointment, Nguyen and Kumar responded with authority, dispatching their singles opponents in straight sets to help the Crimson to a 2-1 lead. Nguyen and Saint John?...
POOLMAN Laszlo Kiss was very disappointed when he failed to win a medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics. The 19-year-old Hungarian swimmer came up empty in the 200-m backstroke, but he got an unexpected consolation prize when U.S. gold medalist Mike Troy shared some of his training secrets with him. "I immediately saw the difference between the way Mike prepared and the way we did," says Kiss, now 67. "They trained more and harder, and the dry [land] training was very focused." For Kiss--and eventually for the world of swimming--that insight changed everything...
...Wild Thing” has since taken on a different, more respectful meaning in a different sport. Straying from the traditional interests of his parents and the area at large, it was a fraternal influence that sparked an interest in lacrosse.“My older brother Mike played [lacrosse] as a freshman, and we were always just messing around with sticks in the backyard,” Jason says. “I was always a baseball player, but I just fell in love with lacrosse.” Although it was his brother who introduced...
...penalty-filled match, in which the Bobcats scored on its first four power-play opportunities, the Crimson turned its focus last night to one key theme: penalties. “We did a much better job tonight staying out of the box,” co-captain Mike Taylor said. The Crimson tallied only six penalties to the Bobcats’ five, and Harvard’s special teams shut out Quinnipiac on every one of its power-play opportunities. “We did a much better job limiting their ability to get easy offense,” said...