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...Crimson (3-3, 1-1 Ivy), which entered the season predicted to finish fifth in the conference standings, upended Cornell (2-4, 1-1), the team predicted to finish fourth, in a 10-4 victory at Harvard Stadium, moving the Crimson one step closer to earning one of four playoff berths...
...week, coach has been harping on us that last year they came into our home stadium and bullied us around a little bit,” Cohen said. “So that’s definitely on the back of our minds...
While waiting to meet in the ring, Pacquiao and Mayweather will compete at the box office. Pacquiao's last several fights have been at Las Vegas' MGM Grand, a 17,000-seat venue, against marquee opponents. His bout against Clottey will be held at Texas Stadium (45,000 seats for the event, and ticket sales have been brisk). But because Clottey was a last-minute replacement for Mayweather with no natural fanbase in the U.S., HBO declined to feature the fight in its popular 24/7 series (it did so for several of Pacquiao's previous matches), and the media tour...
...other ceremonies, but athletes were free to choose their own competition outfits). It also had a fabulous stroke of luck when Li was selected to light the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony - a spectacle that required him to make a slow circuit of the Bird's Nest stadium suspended from a wire. Even though he was wearing Adidas clothing as he did so, Li's name was nonetheless introduced to an estimated billion TV viewers, many of whom subsequently learned of his eponymous brand. The company's stock price jumped 5% in the week that followed...
...measure of how much safer Iraq is these days that some 6,000 people jammed Baghdad's basketball stadium last week to attend a public rally for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Two years ago, at the height of Iraq's sectarian civil war, no one would have dared show up, but this warm-up for the March 7 election was a surprisingly relaxed event. The rings of police around the stadium didn't bother to check for car bombs and gave only one brief pat-down for weapons at the entrance. Inside, al-Maliki, though the head...