Word: moment
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...gets too up or too down,” Harvard coach Jason Saretsky said. “That’s one of her greatest strengths. She’s just so competitive, and she’s able to keep things in perspective and just focus on the moment as opposed to getting caught up in the bigger picture and allowing something beyond her control to take her off her game...
...massive crowd was silent for a moment, as incoming co-captain Lizzy Nichols lined up for her penalty kick. As she put cleat to ball, the crowd began to shout. When the shot ripped the upper nineties, it roared. When the swarm of students sprinted onto the field, it became pure bedlam, and deservedly so. Nichols’ penalty-kick goal with nine seconds left in double overtime not only won the game, 2-1, for the Crimson, but more importantly, it secured an Ivy title. Were it not for that goal, a tie would have resulted, handing Princeton...
...squads exchanging high-fives in their layup lines. Noting my wide eyes, my fellow reporter said, “Remember, you can’t cheer.”I had my pen and pad, my tape recorder, and my eye for basketball at the ready. But at that moment, I realized that sportswriting would require more from me than I ever anticipated—and more than I could ever really deliver. The Crimson holds itself to high standards of journalism. One of its more sacred rules is its conflict-of-interest policy, which prohibits writers from covering blockmates...
...Sometimes, though, it’s even simpler than that. Sport is life in our basic joy—even if such an emotion is a violation of our ethics as journalists. I will never forget the moment, nearly four years ago, that crystallized this reality...
...Crimson's last game of the non-conference schedule provided the team with its signature moment of the season, when it defeated then-No. 17 Boston College. Days after the Eagles beat eventual national champion UNC, Harvard traveled to Chestnut Hill, where the Crimson shocked the basketball world...