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...don’t expect that everyone would memorize our fight song or sport more Crimson-colored gear and we’ll suddenly have the fun and friendship of a Big Ten school. But I do expect we could celebrate genuinely our friends’, peers’, and school’s accomplishments, rather than mask deep cynicism about crowded housing and the Core with beer and circuses...
...swimming team, and he is turning his country from a fringe player in competitive swimming into a global force, one that's won aquatic medals at every Summer Olympics since 1988. In the process, Kiss is establishing himself as perhaps the most imaginative coach in the history of the sport...
...into the pokier backstroke, but he never had a swimmer with the right flexibility. He recognized that Egerszegi was the talent he'd been waiting for and began teaching her the moves. That, however, required making minute but crucial changes in her technique--a very big deal in a sport in which fractions of a second count. So Kiss came up with inventive ways to help her learn...
Here we go again.For the third year in a row, Baseball America, one of the preeminent authorities on the sport, has tabbed the Crimson as the team to beat in the Ivy League.Harvard was also the preseason favorite in 2006 and 2007, but the Crimson fell short both years to Princeton and Brown, respectively.Lofty expectations are the name of the game.“Aww man, it’s every year,” head coach Joe Walsh grumbles. “It’s how you’re playing. It’s who?...
...roughly 14 other Iraqis drove to the southern city of Amarah, near the Iranian border. Everything had been arranged through contacts in Syria and Lebanon, where he and his group had fled for a time trying to avoid capture by American forces. According to Ali, a convoy of new sport utility vehicles with drivers speaking only broken Arabic was waiting for them in Amarah. Soon the group was on the road east for a five-hour drive. The destination was an Iranian training facility, where instructors told the recruits not to speak to anyone but them...