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...government's backtracking came after months of fraught debate over its rugby team - South Africa's surest hope in any sport of capturing a world title. While the Springboks played a spectacular tournament, they did so with few black players, despite coming from a country with an 80% black majority. All but six of the 30-man rugby squad were white, and only two Springboks of color played in the World Cup final...
...Harvard. In the winter, he is a diver for the Crimson swimming and diving team, and, in the spring, he is a coxswain for the heavyweight crew team. On top of those commitments, Davis completed last year’s New York City Marathon. “Each sport has its own little niche that I like about it,” Davis says. “The leadership I get with the crew team is a pretty cool thing, and the running—I like the solitude of it and being able to clear your mind...
...Spain's Supreme Court to work out the fine points over the next year or so. In the meantime, hostile debate of the Madrid bombings - who was involved; who blamed whom for what; should investigations carry on or not - continues to be the favorite sport of Spanish politicians. On Tuesday, the Congress of Deputies debated whether the opposition Popular Party had mounted a "media jihad" in its efforts to prove that ETA was indeed involved in the attacks. The uncertainty surrounding Osman's sentence will just give them one more thing to argue about...
...yourself.” Chute, in contrast to her Ukrainian classmate, is a decidedly homegrown collegiate hockey player. She earned the Associated Press’s Player of the Year honor during her senior year of high school at the Blake School in Minnesota. Chute was a multi-sport star in high school, garnering All-State recognition in both lacrosse and cross country. A levelheaded player, Chute should bring stability to the Harvard middle and, along with sophomore and fellow Minnesotan Anna McDonald, blazing speed to the forward rotation. As Ryabkina notes, “Maybe it?...
...started learning when I was 10,” Silbiski explains, recollecting the seemingly casual way in which she took up the sport. “Neither of my parents played. There was a tennis center up the street from me, and they said it would be a good way to be healthy and stay active. They didn’t think I was going to be very good...