Word: poloã
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...them pulled open the door, and the three of us hopped into the cab. As I waited for my turn to say, “Francisco de Aguirre y Luis Carrera, cerca del Club de Polo??—the directions to my host family’s house that I have given dozens of times since my arrival in Santiago—I started to notice that my surroundings were a little…unusual...
...Upsets like water polo??s victory over Brown are thrilling, but not if you are rooting for the favorite. Instead, there can be just as much beauty in watching a team you support and expect to win go out and show its superior talent in bringing home victory. That is what the softball players did on their home field in the Ivy League Championship against the Quakers. Shelly Madick ’08 threw a no-hitter in the first game, then got the save in the second, shutting Penn down when it had the winning...
...combination of “Harvard” and “polo?? may reek of rich-boy snobbery, but Nick refuses to discount the sport’s intensity on behalf of its image. “It’s expensive to play polo. There’s no other way around it,” says Nick, who believes some are involved in the polo scene simply for the presumed lifestyle. “How do you feel about those people? You kinda feel torn because they help push the game forward?...
...Though disappointed, Nick—who will likely go to Argentina (“the Mecca of polo??) post-graduation to play with the professionals—hopes that that past season has given the players something to love...
...thing that I find most important in intercollegiate polo??and I know it’s hard for a Nick Snow sitting in this chair, trying to work through what he went through yesterday—is the relationship that the kids have with the horses, first, and with each other, second,” Cissie says the morning after the game...