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...steroids the exception? One obvious answer is that sports are supposed to be fair in a way that life is not. But sports are full of institutionalized unfairness-ask anyone who's ever rooted against the Yankees. Olympic runner wins a gold medal because of blood doping: Cheater! Olympic team wins dozens of medals because it has tens of millions of dollars for training: U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! In the steroid debate, what's often cited is fairness, not to current players but to the records of retired and dead ones. Yet middling athletes of today routinely outdo greats...
Freshman cross-country standout Lindsey Scherf finished second in the 3,000-meter run, less than four seconds behind New Balance runner Roisin McGettigan. The time did not match the automatic qualifying time for the NCAA championships, but it likely qualified Scherf for the provisionals.“I was definitely happy with my race. It was the fastest time I’ve ever run,” Scherf said...
...addition to his scholarly background, Lieberman said his passion for running motivated his research. While he claims he is not a very good runner, he did train for the marathon as a graduate student and looks back with nostalgia on his days living beside the Charles as a tutor in Dunster House...
...Chandler has just a great pair of hands and is a great route runner,” Siedlecki said. “He works extremely hard on the little things...
Since it’s that time of year, it is fitting to begin with the presidents (and runners up) who went to school here. For someone who did plenty of womanizing in the Oval Office and got away with it, it would hardly seem surprising that John F. Kennedy ’40’s career at Harvard involved many a ‘romantic’ encounter—especially at the Spee, but probably plenty of other locations. Al Gore ’69, before the judge’s panel determined him the runner...