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...Tournament at Bucknell, Harvard came out of the tournaments with a 5-6 record, including two frustrating losses to Princeton. Regular season play occurred mostly in Connecticut, New York and California. On the West Coast, the Crimson experienced its toughest loss, a 20-2 rout by then-No. 1 Stanford, and greatest victory at the time–a 17-10 triumph over Cal State Monterey Bay. Harvard returned to the East Coast to compete in the Northern Division Championships, in which the Crimson fell to Hartwick and Brown before crushing Utica and Connecticut College. The two latter teams were...

Author: By Emmett Kistler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Crimson Sinks Amidst Tough League Schedule | 5/30/2009 | See Source »

...second margin to win the Class of 1999 Cup for the first time in five years.Radcliffe saw its national rank rise as high as No. 2 after its open-water win against Princeton on April 25, one week after coming up just 1.53 seconds short against No. 3 Stanford.“That was a really big win for us because, in its 11-year history, we had only won [that race] once before this year,” Kharazzi said.But the Black and White could not prevail against No. 1 Wisconsin —which also claimed first place...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Radcliffe Rebounds on National Stage | 5/30/2009 | See Source »

...down all of the Bears in 3-0 contests. A sweep of Williams earned the Crimson a No. 4 ranking in its next matchup against No. 8 Dartmouth, who fell by the same 9-0 score. Harvard then hit the road to face No. 7 Cornell and No. 6 Stanford. The Crimson beat them both, 8-1, proving worthy itself of its top-four ranking. Harvard’s first real tests came in the first week of February against three opponents that were seeded higher than the Crimson. “We knew that we were strong going into...

Author: By Brian A. Campos, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Young Crimson Among Best in Country | 5/30/2009 | See Source »

...Jersey grandmother, beat those odds at Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa. Demauro's 154-roll lucky streak, which lasted four hours and 18 minutes, broke the world records for the longest craps roll and the most successive dice rolls without "sevening out." According to Stanford University statistics professor Thomas Cover, the chances of that happening are smaller than getting struck by lightning (one in a million), being hit by an errant ball at a baseball game (one in 1.5 million) or winning the lottery (one in 100 million, depending on the game). (Read "When Gambling Becomes Obsessive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Craps! How a Gambling Grandma Broke the Record | 5/29/2009 | See Source »

Given the rules of the game, there are any number of ways to achieve 154 consecutive rolls without crapping out, though all of them are highly unlikely. Unlikely but not impossible. Stanford's Cover explains: "Let's say we have a million gamblers trying a thousand events at any one time. That's a billion different rolls of craps." Out of a billion different games, the probability of getting an event that special is reduced to one in 1,000. "It's not out of the realm of possibility," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Craps! How a Gambling Grandma Broke the Record | 5/29/2009 | See Source »

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