Word: sloppyness
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"We played sloppy tonight," Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. "We felt that we could handle them easily. As a result, we often let up at both ends of the court."
Under the blazing morning sun a hodgepodge of military vehicles falls into sloppy formation on the dunes near the Mogadishu airport. Somali children sneak through shell holes in a wall to beg for food and baksheesh. Marines shoot souvenir snapshots of each other as the convoy slowly takes shape.
That the Crimson was even hanging around at the end of the game with a chance to win it is a tribute to its fighting spirit and determination. Playing the day after a sloppy 2-1 win at Yale, fatigue played a major factor down the stretch.
Sure: it was uncharacteristically sluggish and sloppy. But there was nothing new in Harvard's defeat.
In my three years of reading The Crimson, I have grown used to finding frequent factual errors. Usually, I simply find them annoying and attribute them to sloppy journalism. In this case, however, I find the error personally offensive.