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Some of these electronic bulletin boards, known as hospitality-exchange sites, hook up travelers with locals who don't mind having someone stay in an extra room, crash on an empty couch or even pitch a tent in the yard. Many allow people to take turns hosting one another in their homes. And others arrange work for temporary room and board. A few charge nominal fees, but most are free. "What used to be a fringe hobby for a few travelers is becoming a mainstream phenomenon," says Daniel Hoffer, co-founder of Couch Surfing, which has nearly 470,000 users...
...long ago—2005, to be exact—when, for an Ivy League pitching staff, a trip to O’Donnell Field was synonymous with inflated ERAs and a tired bullpen.The Harvard baseball team averaged nearly seven runs per game that season—the last time the Crimson won the Ivy League Championship—behind a powerful lineup stocked with the likes of future draft picks Zak Farkes ’06 and Steffan Wilson ’07 and hard-hitting mashers Schuyler Mann ’05 and Josh Klimkiewicz...
Against No. 16 Wichita State last Sunday, head coach Joe Walsh put the fate of the third game of the series in the hands of sophomore Jonathan Strangio, an untested right-hander who had never thrown a single pitch in a Crimson uniform.Facing a potent lineup, Strangio lasted four innings and gave up six earned runs. Though he struggled in the outing, Strangio has impressed his coach this preseason. “He’s come on like gangbusters,” Walsh says. “He’s 87, 88 with the fastball, throwing...
...keyed in on Murphy. In a four-game series against Dartmouth at the end of last season, the Big Green gave “Murph” a free pass in eight at-bats. It’s hard to blame them, though—when they did pitch to her, Murphy connected for a grand slam. With that kind of power behind her bat, it is likely that the base-on-balls trend will continue this season. “People are going to stay away from her power,” Allard says. “She?...
Griff Jenkins doesn’t like waiting.At the plate, Jenkins’ favorite pitch is the first pitch. And if it’s a fastball, like the one he launched out of Brown’s Murray Stadium for his only collegiate home run last April, even better.Jenkins isn’t waiting to visit the altar, either. He’s engaged to marry his high school sweetheart, Ashley, this summer.But Jenkins, a senior second baseman, has had to wait for the better part of four years for a regular gig on the Crimson infield...