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...season for eccentric sports at Harvard. Dunster’s Kevin J. Mechenbier has reinstated the Harvard Curling Club, which is returning to campus after a 4-year hiatus. With the 2010 Olympics coming up, amateurs and pros alike can have a chance to play this popular – or, let’s face it, odd – sport that we all love to watch on ESPN...

Author: By BETH E. BRAITERMAN, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Because We Didn't Have Enough Weird Sports... | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

...curling newbies, here’s how the sport works: Two teams of four players slide heavy rocks down a sheet of ice toward a target, known as “the house.” Sweepers with brooms –what is it with Harvard kids and sports with brooms? – help direct the stones on their journey...

Author: By BETH E. BRAITERMAN, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Because We Didn't Have Enough Weird Sports... | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

Absolutely. I feel like I use all of my energy and all of my focus when I do it. It gives me a way to express myself and be creative yet athletic, and I never found that with any other sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Tony Hawk | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

Some people don't consider skateboarding to be a sport. What would you say to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Tony Hawk | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

Illuminated by pyrotechnic lighting and oversized LCD screens, a parade of aspiring teenage pop stars took to the stage at Kiev's Palace of Sport on Saturday night hoping to win European hearts - and televotes. A 13-year-old from Belarus rapped about a rabbit, backed by Gregorian chants. A troupe of Dutch teenagers tap-danced while wearing garish blue-and-pink, cheetah-print dinner jackets. And, much to the delight of the 7,000-strong audience, a Ukrainian schoolboy was wheeled out on a wagon filled with hay and back-up vocalists as his female dancers did back-flips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Junior Eurovision: Schoolyard Crushes with Glitter | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

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