Word: slating
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Penn has its own answer to the rabid fan base of New Haven’s John J. Lee Amphitheater, and its students will be out in force at the Palestra Friday night to help the Quakers avenge their only loss of the Ivy slate and again hoist the league banner. Yale can play with Penn-at home, with the support of the Dawg Pound. The Bulldogs haven’t won in the Philly hoops chapel since 1997, and Penn will take this one handily...
...team suffered another crunching at the hands of two-time defending league champion Penn on Friday night at Lavietes Pavilion, dropping its fifth straight game on the season, and 11th straight to the Quakers, 83-67. The Crimson’s crumbling during the stretch drive of the Ivy slate has come to closely resemble last season’s end-of-year collapse, when Harvard went through an agonizing stretch of eight straight losses. But if you tuned in at the right time in the game against the Quakers—specifically, if you were watching with about eight...
...Finelli said. “On any given night, it really is anyone’s night.” On Saturday night, it was Finelli’s time to shine. And if the team’s hot play continues during the second half of the Ivy slate, she and the rest of the Crimson may be jumping and bumping shoulders into postseason play. —Staff Writer Emily W. Cunningham can be reached at ecunning@fas.harvard.edu...
...team’s next preseason goal of winning the Ivy League crown. But an injury on Saturday left a dark cloud over the Crimson’s title chances entering a road tilt Princeton on Sunday, and the Tigers took advantage, ruining an otherwise clean Harvard conference slate for the second year in a row. Now, the team’s most immediate goal is the league’s finale at home against Yale on Wednesday. “We’re going to do some serious training and make some adjustments,” captain Ilan...
...works in exactly five words!” he wrote in an e-mail after he taped the show, adding that he was “pretty nervous beforehand.” Most of the discussion focused on Pinker’s 2002 book “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”—a book on evolutionary psychology—as Pinker struggled to explain his beliefs about brain function while Colbert joked and interrupted him. Colbert also poked fun at Pinker’s 2003 move from MIT to Harvard...