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...boathouse. For instance, it's still hard to recruit enough women players, and it seems that those who do sign up are less willing than men to "ride the bench," or sit on the sidelines while the stars play. Says Pat Babcock, UConn's senior administrator for women's sports: "We ask our women's coaches to carry a lot of players, but the five or six who don't get into an event are apt to go off and do other activities rather than stay on a team for which they don't get to participate." Heather Linstad...
There's no way to predict exactly how long the facilities will hold the attention of the 18-and-under set, but signs suggest the trend is in no danger of waning soon. The toy company Sport-Fun last Christmas saw its foam-covered barbells and brightly colored treadmills for kids as young as 4 land on the Toy Industry Association's Top 50 People's Choice nominee list. As if that weren't enough, My Gym, a growing national chain of activity centers, offers stretching and other wee workouts for "terrific tots" (2 to 3 years), "waddlers...
Unfortunately, fencing has been victimized by uninformed attitudes because few people really know much about the sport (Comment, “Harvard Sporting Diversity”, Feb. 27). Since Brian A. Finn ’06 chose as his target the women’s fencing squad, I will address the facts as they pertain to our women...
This is a lot to lay on Harry R. Lewis. Here, let me try and be a sport about it. Harry, I want my college life to be like it was 50 years ago, before even you were a student here. I imagine the Adams House Library on a Friday evening, the room smoky and full of young men clutching cloth-bound books and fountain pens poised to scribble notes in the margins. Their mental paths were circuitous and paved with discarded ideas. Or they were sipping brandy out of monogrammed flasks concealed in their blazers and debating whether...
...Harvard and March Madness: Mutually Exclusive?” featured Feinstein, Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan and former Big East commissioner and Dartmouth men’s basketball coach Dave Gavitt in a discussion on the evolution of college basketball and Harvard’s place in the sport...