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Snowboarding's carefree psyche does have its faults. For instance, it might actually help to pay attention to the competition. Snowboard crosser Lindsey Jacobellis was cruising last week to the team's fourth straight snowboard gold, which would have given the U.S. a clean sweep. Her lead was so big she could have snowshoed to the finish. But on the second- to-last jump she hot-dogged it, clutching the rail of her board in mid-air, and botched the landing so badly she fell and got silver instead. Going for show is totally in keeping with the snowboard...
WHAT THE BUZZ IS SAYING: That the competition this year is not strong, that Brokeback was perhaps the best-reviewed movie of the year and that Middle America has accepted it with surprising equanimity. Some sense in it the potential for a multiaward sweep...
...postseason appearance since 1946, the Crimson could also break the school record for most Division I victories in a season. Winning five of the last six games would give Harvard 17 wins, one more than the 16 Division I wins collected by the 1996-97 team. Additionally, with a sweep of this weekend’s series versus Brown and Yale, the Crimson would be guaranteed its first season above the .500 mark since 2001-02, the year before the current group of seniors reached Cambridge.“It’s definitely big for us as seniors...
...because by Saturday night, Penn should have the bow tacked onto the gift-wrapped NCAA bid that goes to the Ivy League’s regular season champion. The Quakers will still have some work to do to make it all tidy and mathematically official, but if they can sweep two teams that they combined to beat by 72 one month ago, they’ll be no worse than two games clear with five to play.As Penn takes that long bus ride back from Ithaca Saturday night, it will have nearly four weeks and five meaningless games standing between...
...ranked team of Elsa O’Riain and Melissa Anderson then defeated Sylvanie Spangenberg and Maria Zivicova, 8-6, in the No. 1 slot. Finally, after trailing 4-1, the team of Eva Wang and Stephanie Schnitter rallied to win seven straight games and give the Crimson the sweep in the doubles matches. O’Riain suffered a minor elbow injury during doubles, causing a last-minute change in the singles roster. However, Harvard seemed unaffected by the loss. “We had some adversity...We had to make a change in the singles line...