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...superb Harvard career has extended a life-long success story with sports. He collected nine letters in high school--four in baseball, three in basketball and two in soccer--and that doesn't include what Bingham says may be his favorite sport, tennis. He first picked up a tennis racquet in 11th grade and won the town championship three months later...
Energy issues have been the most successful Denver stocks. But the flourishing market has also drawn out the kooks and the cons. The inventor of a tennis racquet with adjustable tension that permits cannonball serves and puffball returns was unable to find anyone to underwrite his scheme. One of the top promoters behind Great Plains Mineral Byproducts Inc., which claimed to have a process for extracting gold, silver and platinum from the residue of burnt coal, turned out to have a record of three fraud convictions...
Filling in for ailing head coach Jack Barnaby, assistant coach Elyse Jacobs took the helm at this weekend's Women's Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association tournament and guided Becky Tung, Harvard's number one racquet woman, to an impressive eighth-place finish and a spot on this year's All-Ivy team...
Edwards may be Desaulniers' toughest competition this year, but the two play squash on different planes. The Crimson captain's racquet control, quickness and remarkable volleys forced Edwards to lose his concentration...
...first love is basketball. "I'm the type who likes to do something all out or not at all. I demand a lot from myself. And I really love basketball. That's why I quit tennis. I didn't put down my racquet, I just picked up a basketball," she says...