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Hanging on to a playoff berth by a thread and a shot at home ice by a hair, the ninth-place Crimson has only four games left to secure a post-season spot. And the road ahead, including a trip to Ivy rivals Princeton and Yale, will not be easy...
...playoff picture can wait. For now, the Crimson can revel in its second-straight Beanpot title. Last night Harvard showed it had the best offense in Boston, and it has the trophy to prove...
...Northern Virginia on Friday night, Jimmy Lynn, an AOL marketing executive, got an inkling that something was happening. "I usually go to the Redskins games with a guy from the mergers and acquisitions group," Lynn explained. When the friend canceled--for the Redskins' first playoff game in seven years--Lynn knew it was not just something, but really something. In downtown Manhattan early Monday, the 7:30 a.m. daily research call emanating from the fifth-floor conference room of Merrill Lynch headquarters was handled by analysts Henry Blodget and Jessica Reif Cohen. Traders who had nearly run off the road...
...ECAC's top nine teams all have winning conference records because the bottom of the pack has been struggling. Cornell (3-5-0, 3-5-0) is in 10th place and has an outside shot at a playoff berth. But the Big Red has two tough games this weekend against Northeastern and Providence...
...Also worth noting is the absence of any Ivy League playoff system or tiebreaker to determine final champions in close seasons. If, by chance, two or three teams finish with the same record, it makes no matter which of those teams beat which during the season--each will be crowned league co-champions at the conclusion of the season...