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Still, given its unparalleled academic offerings and newly discovered dedication to championship-caliber football, the Ivy League captures seven consecutive BCS national titles beginning in 2013—four of which are earned by Harvard, which lures recruits to Cambridge with a brand-new Astroturf stadium. The stretch is highlighted by the Crimson’s third title, in 2016, earned at the Rose Bowl, capping a perfect 13-0 campaign and marking the program’s first Tournament of the Roses title since...
...team plans to use the practice time to get ready for that final stretch...
...lost a spring race since 2003, and the 2004 Midshipmen rowed to an open-water victory at the national championships. Navy had won the previous three Haines Cups over the Crimson. Only one Harvard boat got the best of the Midshipmen in a dual race during that three-year stretch...
...awaiting takeoff at the Tenerife airport in the Canary Islands off Spain was sliced open without warning by a Dutch KLM jet that had come hurtling out of the fog at 160 m.p.h. The collision left twisted metal, along with comic books and toothbrushes, strewn along a half-mile stretch of tarmac. Everyone on the KLM jet was killed instantly. But it looked as if many of the Pan Am passengers had survived and would have lived if they had got up and walked off the fiery plane...
...Down the Stretch In the Middle East, thousands of boys from South Asia toil as jockeys in camel races, and their lives are woeful. Following government-imposed bans on jockeys under 16 in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, at least 20 experimental robots will take over the reins this fall. Kamel, a Swiss-built, lightweight, remote-controlled jockey, uses gestures similar to those of a human jockey, even whipping. Price: $5,500 each...