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...NCAA team championship is not only the first in the Crimson fencing program’s 118-year history, but also only the fourth NCAA championship that Harvard has ever won in any sport...
...they’ve been doing it, that’s no small pill to swallow.“It’s definitely going to be strange once he graduates,” Greg said. “We’ve been playing not only lacrosse but sports in general together as long as I can remember, and it’s going to be strange when he’s not playing anymore.”It didn’t begin with lacrosse, though. If things had worked out as they had begun, the Cohen brothers...
...dealing with youth activism in politics. The ever-increasing power of communication inspires him, and he has some ideas about the centralization of student lobbying that he wants to develop.But when it comes to athletics, the Olympic medalist avers that he won’t be joining any intramural sports teams.“If you ever saw me play basketball, you’d know why I speedskate,” Cheek admits with a laugh. “If I do play sports, it will be for fun. I’m not going...
DIED. ANN CALVELLO, 76, fiery Roller Derby Queen and a reigning icon of the American sport cum spectacle since the 1940s; in Burlingame, Calif. Cast as a villain who relished boos from the crowd, she reached her zenith in the '60s as a star of San Francisco's famed Bay City Bombers. With purple, green and polka-dot hair, tattoos and a flair for elbow-throwing, the Meanest Mama on Skates endured 12 broken noses and numerous cracked ribs competing over seven decades...
...setup of the fencing room at the MAC—a long, narrow space that features simultaneous bouts with different weapons—makes for the ultimate, and often the extreme, spectator sport. Fans line up along the walls, mere inches away from the action; in particularly aggressive bouts, fans must lean into the wall to avoid, well, getting hurt. In this the year of the men’s first ever outright Ivy League title, they offer the “automatic tournament berth” neither basketball team could muster this season...