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...Crimson defeat Michigan State, 5-2, in its second win in as many matches this month. Sophomore Gideon Valkin and junior Scott Denenberg, who teamed up once again after not playing together due to injury, defeated their opponents in decisive fashion in the No. 3 match, 8-3. Freshmen Sasha Ermakov and Nick Savage also took their match at No. 2 with a score of 8-3 to clinch the doubles point. The best doubles competition of the day, however, occurred in the top match-up, between the pair of co-captain Brandon Chiu and sophomore Ashwin Kumar...
...first turn in the top spot, captain Brandon Chiu reeled off a 6-1, 6-4 victory, the same score by which freshman Chris Clayton won the third match. Harvard then swept the doubles competition for the final point of the day. The rookie duo of Nick Savage and Sasha Ermakov came away with an 8-2 win in the top match. The Crimson, whose record now stands at 1-4, faces Michigan State at noon this Sunday in the Murr Center before traveling next weekend to No. 20 Virginia Commonwealth and No. 73 William & Mary...
...salvage Japan's underwhelming performance was 24-year-old women's figure skater Shizuka Arakawa, clinging to third place going into the long-program event. Arakawa may have been the 2004 world champion, but all week the who-will-get-gold headlines belonged to the frontrunners, America's Sasha Cohen and Russia's Irina Slutskaya. "[Arakawa] is among the top-three girls," her coach Nikolai Morozov told TIME in the run-up to Torino. "She now has to work on building more confidence in herself...
...Winter Olympics where hyped athletes tumbled from grace, a little-known Japanese figure skater became a surprise star by keeping her tush off the ice. SHIZUKA ARAKAWA beat favorites Sasha Cohen of the U.S., who won the silver, and Irina Slutskaya of Russia, who took home the bronze. Arakawa, 24, considered retiring in 2004 and finished ninth at last year's world championships. But she stuck with it to please her dad and wound up scoring Japan's first figure-skating gold and becoming a national hero. Happy now, Mr. Arakawa? --By Alice Park...
Luke’s wife Sasha, a glittering socialite of ageless beauty, immerses herself in the “benefit scene”—indiscriminately partaking in drugs, affairs, and social soirées—and his wayward teenage daughter is in imminent danger of following irredeemably in her mother’s footsteps...