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...calls home always began and ended with the Yankees or the Giants, and no matter how far apart we may have been, sports always managed to make the miles disappear. And while I’d rather have been there beside him, our speculation about pitching staffs and playoff potential brought back the same feeling I know we shared those nineteen years ago.Before Dad lost his battle with cancer last July, we had one last chance to share the living room. The Yankees were jockeying with the Red Sox for first place at the time, and we were admittedly...
...three points in the standings, earning a tie in Schenectady and a win against the Engineers at home but losing the other two contests.Harvard finally turned things around with a pair of overtime wins against Brown and Princeton.But in order to clinch a first-round bye in the ECAC playoffs, the Crimson needed to play exceptionally well over a nine-day period against the top four teams in the conference.Facing an uphill battle, Harvard delivered. Though the Crimson dropped the first game of the set with a 4-1 loss to Colgate, Harvard upset the Big Red the following...
With a win on Saturday night, the Harvard men’s lacrosse team (6-6, 3-3 Ivy) would have put itself in good standing for a playoff spot, somewhere it had not been since 1996.A third-overtime goal by Dartmouth (7-7, 3-3) largely terminated that hope. But despite finishing off the Crimson by a score of 14-13 at Jordan Field, the Big Green didn’t keep Harvard out of the playoffs.Late last night, the Crimson received an invitation to the NCAA Tournament. It will play Syracuse in the First Round...
...overtake Harvard.Meanwhile Yale (25-16, 10-6), winner of five of its last seven games, must sweep Brown (12-21, 9-7) today and tomorrow to force a tie against the Crimson (given the split) or Dartmouth (given the three Big Green wins).Harvard is well aware of the playoff scenarios.“We’re definitely not looking at going two and four,” Brown said. “That would take the control out of our hands [if Yale sweeps]. We’re looking at winning the first three games...
Even now, the name of one of my all-time favorite pitchers, Andy Pettitte, evokes memories of the playoff legend laughing and blowing bubbles on the bench in his Yankee pinstripes rather than actually pitching in a game...