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...said. “Once we tighten things up, though, we’ve got a lot of good things in the works. Some of the guys are definitely starting to play better.”These improved performances earned numerous Crimson competitors a spot on the stat sheet, as eight different players found the back of the net. Co-captain David Tune led the team with six weekend tallies, while sophomore Alex Thompson logged an impressive hat trick against Iona, matching junior Egen Atkinson with three tournament goals.Perhaps more significant than individual performances, though, was the reminder that...
...Crimson offense continued its stellar performance, with Tune, junior Egen Atkinson and sophomore Bret Voith each notching two scores. Junior Thomas Baily, Sophomore Alex Thompson and Freshman Evan Zepfel also sent shots past the Engineer goalkeeper, while Fellow rookie Luka Babic added to the stat sheet with a team-leading four assists. Most importantly, perhaps, Harvard converted an outstanding six of eight opportunities with a man advantage. Unfortunately for the Crimson, the defensive unit was not quite as sharp. “The big story tonight is that [MIT] had five 5m penalty shots,” explained Connolly, whose...
...game far beyond the press box. He penned an Encyclopaedia Britannica item on America's pastime and invented the statistic now known as the "save," which is the yardstick by which a relief pitcher's ability to preserve leads is measured. It was baseball's first new official stat since "runs batted in" was introduced in 1920. Holtzman, who won entry to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989 and was later named the game's official historian...
...basketball player.Heck, I never thought I’d be a sportswriter—period.In retrospect, I guess it shouldn’t have come as a total surprise. I was that kid analyzing the box score after a Lakers game, keeping score during an Angels game, and compiling stat sheets for my high school volleyball team.Writing about it came fairly easily—I’d only read about 10,000 sports stories in the morning papers growing up.In my sophomore year, when the chance to join The Crimson Sports Board arose, I thought that I would give...
...codes, our understanding of business casual remains far from uniform. Jeans are one thing--half of us have recently worn them to work, according to a Shopzilla.com survey. But only 55% of those surveyed by the job-hunting site Monster.com think exposed underwear is an office no-no, a stat that suggests a gaping generational divide. "I call it the three D's: distracting, disgusting and--although it'll betray my age--disrespectful," says Eileen McAvoy Boylen, 54, a Boston-area marketing executive, of the way young workers dress. Liz Dean, 21, a Mount Holyoke graduate about to join Teach...