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...playing on the saturated field. HARVARD 1, UC SANTA BARBARA 1 For the fifth straight game, sophomore Andre’ Akpan did what he does best: score goals. Early in the second half, still in a scoreless tie with the defending national champions, junior midfielder John Stamatis threaded a pass to Akpan in the box. Akpan challenged the Gaucho keeper with a knock to the far corner that slipped in and gave Harvard the 1-0 advantage. Akpan now has five goals and four assists on the season, good for the team lead in both categories...
...game. His backup, Jonathan Edwards, failed to pick up the slack as Harvard held him to just 17 yards on 10 carries. He was even out-run by Bears quarterback Michael Dougherty, who had 21 yards on 12 carries. And although it could not handle Brown’s passing game early on, adjustments proved to be the key to the game, as the Crimson came back with a new pass defense in the second half—and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. “We saw a lot of things in the first half they didn?...
...focus on Saturday afternoon, as the Crimson looked to rebound from the loss to Dartmouth the night before.Weiss said her team took a “back-to-basics” approach.“We were over-thinking or over-trying on some simple things, like the pass,” she said, “so the goal coming in was to really focus on the simplicity of the game. We want to run it high on the outside and quick in the middle. And we did that—we did a good...
Harvard followed with a 15-play, clock-eating drive that resulted in a 23-yard field goal and increased its lead to seven. The Crimson converted its first three third first downs on the drive, including a key swing pass to Noah Van Niel that the senior fullback advanced past the sticks with a big second effort...
...which the liberal advocacy group suggested General David Petraeus should be known as "General Betray Us". The ad infuriated some of MoveOn's natural allies, Democrats and anti-war Republicans, who claim it rallied wavering Republicans behind President Bush and effectively ended any hope that the Senate might pass legislation speeding up the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. But the ad, and the reaction to it, was also significant for the way it gave us a preview of what a general election race between Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani might look like...