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With a 3-0 romp of Coastal Carolina in the opening contest of the Harvard Invitational, the Crimson showed that this year’s defense is no longer a liability...
...OUTLOOK The Crusaders have already equaled their Patriot League win total from 2004 with last week’s 48-6 romp over Georgetown. A rough road lies ahead in the next few weeks with a visit from Harvard preceding a treacherous road trip that includes games against Delaware, Yale, and Lehigh. Aside from the Mountain Hawks, Holy Cross gets the two of the three best Patriot schools—Lafayette and Colgate—at home. With Bucknell and Fordham struggling early on, the Crusaders should put together a 3-3 league record and a 5-6 mark overall...
Down 2-5 in the second set to Spain's Tommy Robredo yesterday, James Blake's U.S. Open romp appeared over. Robredo had already won the first set, and Blake, the man who outran the quickest tennis player on earth, Rafael Nadal, in a stunning upset on Saturday, had clay feet on the hard court surface. Blake's best shot, a blazing forehand, was a tad slow. Even his rowdy cheering section in Suite 236 of Arthur Ashe Stadium, clad in baby-blue t-shirts and self-dubbed the "J-Block," seemed a bit deflated...
...through the collection of papers, her cat wanders into the room, stepping on and destroying a few carefully ordered stacks—groups of four roommates that she had spent hours assembling as she culled 550 or so housing applications for the perfect match. The cat’s romp sends her back to step one, and she gathers the papers to rematch the students...
...write with Brando a screen treatment, and then a novel, called Fan-Tan, which is about to be published in the latter form (Knopf; 272 pages) a bit more than a year after the death of the once great actor. The book is being blurbed as a "delectable romp" and as the "last surprise from an ever-surprising legend," both claims requiring some parsing...