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Recall the last two postseason meetings between the Sox and Yanks. Both were epic struggles between two great ball clubs. Who can forget last year? The Red Sox were only five outs away from beating the Yanks, when fans watched Grady Little allow the Yankees to torch a weary Pedro Martinez, tying the game. Red Sox fans’ misery was made complete when the overpaid Aaron Boone—or as he’s known in Boston, Aaron bleeping Boone—drilled a walk-off home...
...Tigers (6-8, 5-1 Ivy) that went home victorious, coming from behind at the Class of 1952 Stadium to score two goals in the final three minutes to beat the No. 19 Crimson, 2-1, and once again deal a crippling blow to the Crimson’s postseason chances...
...Harvard field hockey team currently sits at 4-0 in league play. If it can claim victory in its final three conference matches, the squad will take the Ivy title and venture off to NCAA postseason play. Even if the Crimson drops out of the top spot in the Ivies, however, it still could have racked up enough strong non-conference victories to remain in contention for one of the at-large bids. (The squad has failed to defeat a ranked opponent thus far this season, making its at-large prospects dim, but in theory the point still stands.) This...
...spot in the Ivies, its season becomes meaningless, except for a final game against Yale that well over half the student population would rather tailgate for than show up to. This makes every league game crucial and every non-league contest utterly worthless, since the concept of postseason play is about as foreign to Harvard as the score or number of outs is to Manny Ramirez...
This Sunday, the Crimson’s matchup with Brown (5-3-2, 1-1-0 Ivy) puts Harvard (6-5-0, 1-1-0) both in a position to keep their positive momentum to judge their postseason and Ivy championship chances...