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...Hagan who Murphy called on. Instead, it was Ho, who ran the ball for nine yards on three consecutive carries before Harvard punted the ball away to a Crusader offense poised to orchestrate the winning drive. “We just didn’t slam the door shut when we could,” O’Hagan said. “We had a few opportunities to do that. We just didn’t get it done today.” It will be the big plays surrendered by the Harvard defense that will be remembered from...
Federer wins fourth straight U.S. Open, 12th Grand Slam...
...recent study pinpointed the interstellar collision that eventually led to the dinosaurs' extinction. The event was so deep in space that the meteorite it created didn't slam into Earth and kill off the dinosaurs until nearly 100 million years later. While the findings, if true, would "link the biological history of the earth to events far from earth," according to William Bottke, who led the study, they would also alter what we know about the history of dinosaurs...
...Montreal tournament wasn't a Grand Slam event, but, in those early August games, the young Serbian player had done one of the toughest things in pro tennis today: he had consecutively defeated three of the world's best players: Andy Roddick of the U.S., Rafael Nadal of Spain and, most astonishingly, Roger Federer of Switzerland. But as the announcer at the Roger's Cup declared Novak Djokovic the champion, he introduced the young man as a native of Croatia, Serbia's less than friendly neighbor. That's like saying a Pakistani is an Indian or an Irishman an Englishman...
However, with three players ranked in the world's top ten, and two others not too far behind, most Serbs figure that winning a Grand Slam event like the U.S. Open is bound to happen sooner or later. For now they are just enjoying the ride. "Ana is great! Novak is great! Jelena is great!" Ivana, a Serbian blogger, wrote to the New York Observer website earlier this week. "I am proud to be Serbian!!!" Not since a host of Russian women burst onto the scene several years ago has one nation contributed so much in such a short time...