Word: racquetment
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...wait for spring, bulldozers and other machines are erecting the foundations of what appears to be a perimeter park replete with fence and monument. Perhaps HPRE is keeping the project under wraps because it lacks a (released) name. The blueprints in the contractor's trailer simply read, "Harvard Racquet Facility." Yet the complex--which will include 16 international squash courts and six indoor tennis courts, as well as a weight facility and offices for the Athletic Department--has potentially name-worthy donors among wealthy alumni who have been reared for generations in these sports...
...fitting that the new multi-million dollar facility be dedicated to racquet competition. Squash and tennis can and should remain the sports of the new Harvard. They are fun and clean, doable in an hour, good cardiovascular exercise and intensely competitive. Hopefully the new Harvard Racquet facility will be devoted as much to the intramural and non-league players as to the varsity and junior varsity teams. In that way, old and new Harvard can come together in the athletics of a new century...
MATCH POINT Hard to believe it's legal, but Prince's 29-in. titanium-and-graphite Thunderstrike racquet ($325) just makes the cut. The oversize head (13% larger than that of older racquets) and lightweight frame give players extra reach and up to 20% more power...
...Just moments after our governor explained that he was standing up to the more powerful fringes of his party in defense of his political ideology, evening anchors were already explaining what a savvy political move had just been made. Even if the governor had pulled out his squash racquet and hit them over the head, the Boston media wouldn't have understood that politicians don't always make political decisions...
Blodgett Pool's parking lot closed yesterday so construction on a new racquet facility in front of the current building can begin, according to sports officials...