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...survive.”Naturally, this was my away message for a really long time. Many journalists merely chalked the quote up to Guillen’s characteristic irreverence and self-confidence. One can also imagine that he was just kidding, or maybe using his playoff success to rail against the emerging Ivy League baseball intelligentsia (like Boston Red Sox general manager and Yale grad Theo Epstein, or recently deposed Dodgers GM Paul DePodesta ’95, or Oakland A’s assistant GM David Forst ’98, or Florida Marlins vice president and assistant...
...earnest this weekend, with all eight teams in action, Around the Ivy League makes its triumphant return to the printed page, after slogging through a 1-3 start in the SportsBlog.Despite just making the turn into February, several teams have already found themselves eliminated from the two-month playoff that is the 14 Game Tournament. Dartmouth and Columbia, which have combined for a 1-7 start, are out of the race, while Brown and Cornell—each 2-2—have no margin for error.The three one-loss teams—Harvard, Yale, and Princeton?...
Tomorrow afternoon at Lavietes Pavilion, the Harvard men’s basketball team will play the first of 14 straight playoff games.The contest against Dartmouth (2-9) marks the beginning of conference play for the Crimson (8-5), which accounts for everything in the Ivy League, the only Division I conference without a postseason tournament. One misstep against an inferior team could very well punch an irreparable hole in the best hopes Harvard has had in years to beat out Penn for the Ivy League’s automatic NCAA tournament berth.Harvard enters the crucible coming off the last...
...Malkin Athletic Center, adding to the intensity in the matches. “The room lends itself to noise and even if there are just three people, it sounds like a hundred,” Harvard coach Peter Brand said. “It’s a real playoff atmosphere,” said sophomore epee Edward Sherrill. The largest cheering section centered on the area of the room in which the men’s foil was taking place. Crimson junior Enoch Woodhouse won his opening match in a tightly contested affair by jumping over his opponent?...
...title with Penn and Princeton, looking to break the Quakers and Tigers’ combined streak of 13-straight NCAA appearances. Since Penn had the best record against the other two, it looked on as the Bulldogs downed Princeton in the first round of the playoff for the tourney berth. But the Quakers then beat Yale 77-58 in Easton, Pa. to quell the best charge that the six non-P’s have mustered since the Big Red tourney appearance...