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...season, rise to applaud at a fashionable moment. They then recline to chat with their friends while the action passes them by. Win, lose, or draw, they will return to the Yard after the final buzzer sounds. They won’t think twice about the conference playoff picture or the game-winning goal. The ephemeral thrill of Harvard athletics evaporates until The Game rolls around 10 months later, and that’s assuming the trip to New Haven isn’t too arduous, the temptation of lingering at the tailgate too alluring. For Harvard students, that?...
...Cambridge’s casual fans, the calendar—dotted with a few scattered dates of can’t-miss contests—demands much less, even come playoff time. Hosting its final post-season contest of year, the women’s hockey team, ranked second in the nation, could draw just 423 students, one day removed from a turnout...
...started his rookie year in Cambridge slowly, with only two assists to his credit mid-way through February. But at the end of the season, Maki began to blossom, over a four game stretch that included Harvard’s final regular season weekend and its opening round ECAC playoff against Vermont, Maki scored three goals and added an assist. He spent much of the last part of the season on the team’s top line with junior Brendan Bernakevitch and senior Dennis Packard...
Similarly, the Sox were unable to triumph over their eternal nemesis Yankee-counterparts last year because their manager simply blew it. Leaving Pedro in too long in Game 7 was hardly his only blunder of the playoffs. For example, with the Sox trailing by just two runs in the sixth inning of Game 6, Little appeared to wave the white flag on the season by inserting the indomitably terrible Todd Jones—despite having a well-rested and talented corps in the rest of the bullpen—into the game. Jones had submitted an embarrassing...
...every spot on the futons are claimed, forcing a few people to employ less-than-comfortable folding chairs. A brief discussion ensues about the use of the “lucky chair,” a white folding chair covered with signatures commemorating a come-from-behind Sox playoff win. Apparently, the chair only works when all of the roommates are present, since the Sox lost the time the chair made an appearance sans one roommate...