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...Bruins ran the Crimson off the pitch, and while Harvard displayed enough talent to merit its presence on the field, the team was simply overwhelmed at the ease in which UCLA eviscerated its vaunted attack. Harvard hadn’t played an opponent of UCLA’s caliber and thus hadn’t needed to change its playing style until the sun set in southern Cal and the Crimson’s 2006 season...
...present. Fesmire won an award in 2006 for a medical study on “digital rectal massage for intractable hiccups.” Standing with a “Dr. Fran’s Anti-hiccup Kit” in hand, Fesmire makes a less-than-stellar sales pitch for his own product. “I have no desire to ever try it again” says Fesmire. The kit includes a tube of K-Y Jelly and a latex surgical glove. Cornell professor Brian Wansink, winner of the Ig Nobel Nutrition Prize, studied the effect of rigged...
Players, Choose Your Pitch As a white South African, I was disturbed by Vivienne Walt's "Field of Broken Dreams" [Sept. 24]. There are people who will never be satisfied despite massive reform within our country. I am sure I speak for most white South Africans when I say we are more than pleased to have put apartheid behind us and we would never support racial discrimination of that sort in our lifetime. The suggestion that a white élite school system has kept potential black players off the national team is ludicrous. If you travel to any corner...
...Connubial blisters form right after the ceremony, on the newlyweds' drive from San Francisco down to a Mexican resort. Lila knows the words to every song on the radio and brays them at peak pitch. (Could Eddie not have tuned in to something more soothing, like Rush Limbaugh?) In bed, Lila's lovemaking is suspiciously professional: her moves include the Inverted Corkscrew, the Swedish helicopter and the Jackhammer, and she's given to screaming, "F--- me like a black guy, Eddie!" (On the plus side, she got his name right.) By the time Lila has disregarded Eddie's warnings about...
...clouds burst, the crowds gather. It's an hour before the kick-off of Kolkata's biggest sporting event and the rain keeps pouring. The pitch at the cavernous Salt Lake Stadium is now little better than a mud pit, pockmarked by spreading pools of brackish water and streaks of brown slush. Were this a cricket match, officials would have canceled proceedings and sent fans home. But this is football in the most football-crazy city in India: over 100,000 boisterous Calcuttans fill the divided sides of the stadium, one half festooned in the maroon and green of Mohun...