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Controlling most of the game against its cross-town rival, the Crimson (4-2-1) improved its prospects for a postseason appearance. With the win over the Eagles (5-3-0), who were ranked No. 5 in New England, Harvard has improved its chances of moving into the regional rankings...
Soothing the loss is the memory that Harvard was able to push nation's ninth-best team to its limit. In a game against a NCAA Tournament-caliber team that exhibited a postseason level of play, the Crimson players proved once again that they can compete with the best...
Despite all the turmoil, though, the Sox might still have had a shot at the postseason had their efforts not been undermined by the ineptness of Sox general (mis)manager Dan Duquette. After pledging in that now-infamous SI article last spring to make a serious bid for an impact player to help put the Sox over the top, Duquette sat idly by while the trading deadline came and went last July. While the Yankees bolstered their roster with the likes of Denny Neagle, Dave Justice, and Jose Canseco, the Duke brought us the immortal Ed Sprague, Mike Lansing...
...extenuating circumstances, Harvard went on to suffer its only regular-season loss of the year. Had the game against New Hampshire not been scheduled on the road during orientation week when Harvard University rules forbid first-years from leaving campus, the 1999 Crimson might well have entered the postseason with an unblemished record...
...Pedro Martinez, 28, the Red Sox have--with due respect to Arizona's Randy Johnson--the best pitcher in baseball. After winning 23 games and losing only four in 1999, then performing postseason heroics against Cleveland and New York, Martinez has won nine games this year and lost two--with an average of 12 strikeouts for every nine innings he pitches. What's most impressive about Martinez is his earned-run average: the number of runs that opposing teams score against him, without help from errors, for every nine innings that he pitches. In this ERA of a lively baseball...