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...Harvard women’s squash team (5-1, 3-0 Ivy) opened the second half of its season with a deceptively close 2-7 loss to No. 5 Trinity (12-2) Wednesday evening in Hartford, Conn. The Bantams were the first top-5 team that the Crimson had faced after a relatively soft early season schedule. With the loss, Harvard fell from the ranks of the unbeaten with the toughest stretch of the season still ahead. “With exams and shopping period, I felt we were a little slow out of blocks,” head coach...
Well, the pro clubs who employ those African players in Europe certainly could do without it. Most complain bitterly about CAN's mid-season schedule, which they say seriously disrupts their planning. (European and Latin American continental tournaments are held during the European off-season in the Northern Hemisphere's summer.) Not only are their African stars absent for nearly a month, they also frequently return injured or exhausted - either from play, or from the CAN's unrivaled nocturnal festivities...
...Meng made it to the fourth round, the round of 16. The epee marked the next best weapon for Harvard, with sophomores Billy Stallings and Karl Harmenberg falling just before the round of 16. The strong performances come as a relief, as the weapon took a shot in the off-season with senior Benji Ungar taking time off to train for the Olympics. “[Ungar] not being with us makes us a little weaker, but that’s affected a lot of the Ivy League schools,” Brand said. “Mostly it?...
Entering this off-season, Bonds, 43, faced a daunting challenge. The San Francisco Giants finally cut ties with him, and what other team would sign an aging, surly slugger who also breaks records for bad publicity? That should barely stress Bonds now. After all, he faces up to 30 years in prison if he's convicted on all four counts of perjury, plus the obstruction charge. For years, Bonds has pointed out that he has never tested positive for steroids. Yet the indictment states that investigators have found "positive tests for the presence of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing...
...What's more, with George Mitchell's report on baseball's sordid steroid history due out by the end of the year, the owners wouldn't be dumb enough to toss another scandal into the off-season mix, right? "Hopefully, baseball has learned its lesson from the past," says Karcher. "From a business perspective, they're doing so well from so many different standpoints, I'd just be surprised if collusion would take place." But remember, we're talking about baseball here, where there's always room for another botched play...