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...only front-of-the-pack victory was at Turnberry in 1986). He will remain one of the sport's great tragic figures, his career marked by bad luck (consider the 1987 Masters, when Larry Mize miraculously holed a 140-foot chip shot in a sudden-death playoff) but also an inner flaw linked to overreaching (see the final round of the 1996 Masters, when a six-stroke lead turned into a five-stroke loss...
Close just doesn’t cut it.Falling one spot outside the EIVA playoffs, the Harvard men’s volleyball team failed to advance to postseason play for the third consecutive year. The Crimson finished its season 9-10 overall and 6-4 in the Hay Division, coming in third behind Springfield and New York University (NYU).“We started off really strong—we showed a lot of potential,” sophomore setter Gil Weintraub said. “Unfortunately, as the season went on, with injuries and such, I don?...
...seal the upset. “Nothing compares to that,” Delaney-Smith said. The euphoria of the Cornell victory had long lost its luster. The three-way tie atop the league standings meant that Harvard had to take on the other two teams in a playoff to determine the league’s representative in the NCAA tournament. Facing off against the Big Green in New York City, Harvard fell behind by 18 points in the second half and, despite pulling to within four with a minute to play, couldn’t come...
...first time this century, the Crimson will enter the season’s last conference series already eliminated from playoff contention. Harvard (8-27, 7-9 Ivy) will host Rolfe Division and overall Ivy League leader Dartmouth (21-13, 12-4) for a doubleheader tomorrow at O’Donnell Field before traveling to Hanover, N.H. to wrap up the four-game set on Sunday. First pitch for each twinbill is scheduled...
...fact is that Harvard’s fate no longer lies in its own hands, and for a playoff berth to happen Dartmouth would have to suffer a breakdown of epic proportions while second and third place Yale and Brown essentially toiled in mediocrity for the rest of the year...