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This summer, discussions to build a stadium on the waterfront of St. Petersburg, Fla., fell apart, a significant defeat for team officials. They had hoped to have a new home for the team that could draw more season ticket holders. The Rays’ current venue, Tropicana Field, is a cavernous dome that lacks much charm...
...which 9-0 Yale beats 8-0 Harvard for national championship. 1930: W. Barry Wood ’32 throws a pair of touchdowns and plays the entire last minute for a 13-0 win. 1954: Harvard wins its 500th game by crushing Yale at the Stadium, 13-9. 1957: Most epic Harvard slaughtering by Yale ever: 54-0. 1961: Harvard 27-0 win allows it to earn its first share of the Ivy football title. 1968: In “the best game,” Harvard (equipped with Tommy Lee Jones ’69) pulls through...
...idle viewers who only see the green field of Harvard Stadium through a drunken stupor every other year at The Game, these six or seven hulks of flesh seem to serve little purpose other than to block a fan’s view of the guy throwing the ball. Even the slightly more informed fans (i.e. those who know who Clifton Dawson '07 is) might struggle to come up with a quick, direct way to assess an O-line—sacks allowed? Rushing yards per game...
...cliché goes, Harvard better go big or go home next week. The team has to be a dominant force throughout the game, not just on game-sealing turnovers, because if that potential doesn’t show up, it’ll be yet another nailbiter at Harvard Stadium. And who knows if the Crimson has yet another miracle up its sleeve. —Staff writer Madeleine I. Shapiro can be reached at mshapiro@fas.harvard.edu...
...will perform. Add to that a new 40,000-square-foot spa (where you can warm the marble of your Turkish hamam bed), an adjoining hotel-condo tower, upscale restaurants, clubs and boutiques as well as spectacular lobby chandeliers created by Ai Weiwei, who designed the Bird's Nest stadium for the Beijing Olympics, and you've got a bash the cast of Entourage would die for. (See pictures of the 2008 Beijing Olympics...