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...golf team managed to make it look easy, winning seven of eight tournaments this season and placing second in the other.The latest and greatest victory came this weekend in the Ivy League Championships at Atlantic City Country Club in Northfield, N.J., where the Crimson held off a final-round charge by Yale to win by two strokes and claim the league title for the second year in a row.“Yale played fantastic today,” Harvard coach Kevin Rhoads said. “It did end up getting really close...
...some room with monster drives. “It wasn’t a type of course that suited the type of team we have,” Pollak said. “It rewarded bad drives. You could hit it anywhere.” Also, the first round of play was delayed about half an hour, due to windy conditions, and the later tee times knocked everyone a little out of rhythm, but the conditions on Saturday and Sunday posed no problems for the Crimson. “The conditions were perfect,” Pollak said...
...words increased in obscurity and difficulty as the competition wore on, with more common words such as “retaliate” eventually giving way to lexicographical oddities such as “cummerbund,” which elicited giggles from the college-aged audience. Round One ended with all but one contestant still in play, but Round Two signaled the introduction of more difficult words. At times the word difficulty seem to vary dramatically from contestant to contestant. One ousted speller highlighted this trend with the statement, “Are you serious? We went from shrapnel...
...sweetly silly love song as well as, yes, a tribute to trams: “Let us celebrate this monument of progress / We have reduced emissions by 75%.” Frontman Gruff Rhys sings, “I will design the town in the image of your face / Round the wrinkles of your eyes my footsteps you can trace,” his near-falsetto perfectly suiting both the playful lyrics and the gorgeous melody. The lyrics play on both environmentalism and the economy; not only does Rhys rhyme “depression” with...
...never for Harvard, and a kill from Weissbourd ignited a Crimson run that gave the team a tight 23-22 lead. But even with Weissbourd’s outstanding efforts, the Patriots were simply too much for a depleted and injured Harvard squad to pull off the first round upset...