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...Cornell hockey game and get on a bus to New Haven. The state of Harvard football has declined since the Crimson won its only Rose Bowl in 1920, but the aura surrounding The Game has not. It’s the longest-running rivalry in American sports, a rare opportunity to see Harvard mentioned on ESPN, and one of the few times everyone at this school agrees on something—Yale sucks.WOMEN’S HOCKEY vs. ST. LAWRENCE (Sat. 11/24 4 p.m.)St. Lawrence is one of the toughest of the women’s hockey team?...
...Saturday. Late in the second quarter, with Harvard up, 14-0, Berry looked like he was going to intercept a pass in the endzone, when he was pulled down from behind by the Holy Cross receiver. The crowd booed when the flag was thrown—fearing a rare offensive pass interference call—the referee shocked everyone by calling a defensive penalty. The Crusaders scored their first touchdown on the very next play. And that was only the first of four pass interference calls against the Crimson on the day. On the next drive, senior wideout Corey Mazza...
...chairman called a rare meeting, inviting all interested parties - via the trusted local method, a placard posted on the bus stop - to gather on a Saturday morning at the home of the chairman. Five people showed up. But their proposed solution to the potholed road - taking up a collection to fund repairs - will probably meet the same fate as Igor Petrovich's plans for the pond...
...study by Scripps Howard News Service. The heaviest position, offensive tackle, has gone from 281 pounds two decades ago to 318 pounds today. So, the dozens of high-speed hits that happen every game carry a higher likelihood of potentially hazardous results. While catastrophic injuries like Everett's remain rare, reports of concussions and other severe trauma on the football field are starting to pile up even at the high school and college level. In a study of high school and college football players published last summer, the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine found that between...
...Many Burmese are doing just that. The short-lived rally in Rangoon was one of 20 or so protests that in recent weeks have erupted across Burma - a rare display of civil disobedience by a people who have been ruled for 45 years by one of the world's most reclusive, and repressive, military regimes. The last time there were mass countrywide demonstrations, in 1988, the military cracked down hard, killing thousands of protesters and dashing hopes of democratic reform. Now daily life in this nation of 53 million has become so desperate that an impoverished populace may feel...