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...biggest rival in men’s basketball and men’s ice hockey. The newfound rivalry between the Big Red and the Crimson is more current, more competitive, and much more focused on the actual game at hand. And Friday’s upcoming games in both sports have the Harvard student body in a kind of pre-game fervor that November’s football game can’t match. This time, the attention focuses on the contests themselves rather than on which house will sport the best tailgate...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Big Red Usurps Yale As Top Rival | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...that it hasn’t been explained to me—many times, in fact—but my knowledge of downs and flags and penalties is like a house of cards, obliterated by the mere breeze of a linebacker running past. But my interest in the sport was finally piqued when the Nielsen Company trumpeted Super Bowl XLIV—with its 106.5 million viewers—as the most watched American television broadcast in history, besting the series finale of “M*A*S*H,” which captured 105.97 million viewers...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Remembering Radar O’Reilly: The Ratings Legacy of ‘M*A*S*H’ | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

Finishing third and fourth for the Crimson were senior Audrey Mangan and junior Cara Sprague, who placed 30th and 35th respectively. Their performances helped Harvard knock off Williams and St. Lawrence, regional powers whose campus layouts are far more compatible with the sport...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Skiing Posts Solid Results | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...discover which teams pulled together the entire package, mixing sheer athleticism with sublime grace. Which teams would prevent a person from even dreaming about taking a bathroom break during their routines, like the baseball player who compels you to drop everything while he's at bat? In a sport like figure skating, in which there's no finish line to crown a clear-cut winner, you might as well judge with your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Watching Figure Skating, Judge for Yourself | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...crown. But the hackers accessing the lab's computers falsified files linked to Landis' case. The altered data were then circulated as evidence that the lab's work was so sloppy it shouldn't be trusted as proof against Landis. To no avail: he was eventually banned from the sport for two years. Now, a local magistrate has issued a warrant for Landis' arrest - should he set foot in France - in connection with the hacking investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Doping, Now Hacking: The Floyd Landis War | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

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