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What exactly is the Running Man theory? The theory is that humans evolved as running-pack animals, that they only way we got food was by running our prey to death. The human brain exploded in size about 2 million years ago, expanding from a peanut to the melon we have now. That could've only happened if humans were eating animal carcasses. But the first weapon only appeared 200,000 years ago, so for 1,800,000 years we were somehow acquiring dead animals without having a weapon to kill them. So the theory is that we ran animals...
...young squad on task.”The turnaround from 2008 to 2009 also featured a turnaround within the 2009 season. At the beginning of this year, the Crimson dropped some tight preseason matches, including one to Dartmouth, a team that finished in the middle of the Ivy League pack. Injuries in the winter also did not bode well for the squad. Ko missed the first two Ivy League matches in singles, and Cao only started playing in dual matches over spring break.But after spring break, Harvard came together and started playing its best tennis of the year...
...which the Crimson fell to Hartwick and Brown before crushing Utica and Connecticut College. The two latter teams were no match for Harvard throughout the season; in four matchups with the divisional opponents, the Crimson won by a combined 68 points. The Crimson finished in the middle of the pack of the CPWA North behind archrival Brown. In three encounters with the Bears, Harvard dropped all of its matchups by a combined three points with one of the games going into overtime. “Those games were the most heartbreaking,” freshman Devan Kennifer said...
...situation, we actually skied pretty well this year. We have a couple good recruits coming in next year as well, so we should be able to build on our finishes this year.” Overall, despite Harvard skiing’s presence at the back of the pack among New England collegiate programs this winter, the Crimson looks to improve next year having gained valuable experience throughout the 2008-09 campaign. —Staff writer Thomas D. Hutchison can be reached at tdhutch@fas.harvard.edu...
Picked in the preseason to finish in the middle of the Ancient Eight pack, the Harvard women’s tennis team rose above expectations in 2009, and captured the 18th Ivy League Championship in the program’s 35-year history. After a handful of preseason contests, the Crimson (13-8, 6-1 Ivy), ranked No. 66 in the nation by the ITA at the end of the season, battered Columbia, 6-1, and Cornell, 7-0, in the first Ivy weekend. “I think we are playing the best at this moment...