Word: stretch
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...York Mets vice president David Howard says the 49 luxury boxes for the team's new stadium, which are priced between $250,000 and $500,000, have already sold out. That's an impressive achievement, given the bad economy and the team's second straight horrific collapse down the stretch. The New York Yankees have also reported strong luxury-box sales for their new stadium. On Oct. 19, the first day of a public auction for personal-seat licenses that give you a right to buy season-ticket packages for future games, the Jets exceeded their benchmark target...
...Andre Akpan had the assist on the play. Akpan had a standout performance as he notched two goals, increasing his season total to six. He accumulated a team-high five points on the day. Akpan appeared in top form just in time for the Crimson, as it makes its stretch run toward an Ivy championship. In the 68th minute, John Stamatis passed the ball to Akpan, who dribbled through the top edge of the box before finally knocking the ball into the right side of the goal. The two paired up again, this time scoring from the left side with...
...over two hours and decided that since the buffalo had been so anticlimactic, we had to finish the entire park. We learned later that we unwittingly walked four and a half miles. And so victory was sweet when we finally emerged from the park to see the Pacific Ocean stretch before us, with California’s famous Highway 1 hugging its shore. The elation I felt was surely equal to that of Lewis and Clarke when they reached the West Coast, though their trip had been slightly longer than my own. We took a quick picture by the park?...
...effective as the coxswain, directing calls to his teammates and monitoring the cadence. As a result, the Crimson passed the second boat right away from the beginning and never looked back.The Crimson finished just one second behind third-place Stanford, as they were neck-and-neck in the final stretch of the race.“We tried especially hard to keep the margin with Stanford throughout. We had an advantage on them in the first three splits, but unfortunately, Stanford took the last split by the slimmest margin,” Schreck said. Overall, Schreck and his crewmates were...
...McGowan rushed for 105 yards, the first time Harvard’s defense has allowed an individual opponent to rush for over 100 yards since Nick Hartigan of Brown 33 games ago...Pizzotti was sacked three times for the second straight week—prior to this two-game stretch, he had only been sacked twice on the season. —Staff writer Dixon McPhillips can be reached at fmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...